The Harbour (1930)

c. 1930 SOUND VERSION OF THIS FILM IS ON TAPE: PM1671. Pro Patria presents - THE HARBOUR - a British Instructional Films production. Gold Coast of British West Africa. Cocoa trees. Pods of cocoa are shown growing on the tree trunks. Native farmers break up pods and take out the beans. These are dried then we see men shovelling them into sacks. Men sew up the tops of sacks. Men, women and children carry sacks on their heads. Sacks loaded on to a freight train. Harbour of the Gold Coast. Men carry two sacks each on their shoulders and row out to sea on boats to show how cocoa was transported in the days before there was a proper harbour. A special cocoa train is featured. Men tip sacks down a chute from barrows. Machinery with tins of cocoa (?) rolling past. Instruments used by engineer drawing up plans for the harbour. Karare (?) site chosen. Men working to build harbour. Bridges are built. Baskets carried on heads, rails carried on heads and railroad built. Gangs of workers cr