Growing and Gathering Cocoa Beans
1913 2mDocumentary, Short
A very interesting educational picture of the cocoa bean industry taken in one of the largest plantations in the West Indies. The first scenes is the picturesque huts of the natives, which are constructed of bamboo, covered with leaves and bushes. The families are just preparing to go to work. At the plantation the negroes are seen cutting the cones from the trees. These cones are rapidly cut open and the beans spread upon the warehouse floors to dry, then bagged and shipped to the market.
