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News from the West: the coconut cultivation in Suriname
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Week number 47-40
Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.
Impression of a coconut planatation in Coronie in Suriname. SHOTS: - a man climbs a large palm tree with a special climbing technique; he picks coconuts and throws them down; there they're chopped into pieces with machetes and the shell is seperated from the meat; coconut oil is made from the flesh, the waste is for pigs; - in a small factory a part of the flesh is made into copra by drying it.
- Creator:
- Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
- Publication date:
- 1 September 1947
- Length:
- 01:51
- Type:
- video
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- User:
- Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
