News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

449

Date Released

9 Jan 1930

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. The Rival
• 2. Over & Over Again
• 3. (Untitled record)
• 4. Those Long Forgotten Days!
• 5. Rubber Eves!
• 6. Eve at the Circus

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Summary

NoS Summary - girls on a Para rubber plantation in the Amazon.
British Pathe synopsis: "This is a tale of how the women of the Amazon bleed the trees and harvest the valuable latex sap - " L/S of woman collecting sap from trees. Woman walks towards the camera then stops at a tree to collect the sap. C/U of woman cutting into the trunk of the tree. C/U of her removing the collecting cup and pouring the milk from the cup into a large gourd or natural vessel. "By the alchemy of smoke and patience, the sap is cooked into raw rubber." M/S of woman sitting by a fire spooning the rubber mixture over a large oval lump in the middle of a pole over the heat. A dog jumps up and down excitedly while she works. "Down the broad Amazon, the boats transport it to Para, the great rubber town." High angle L/S of the town. "Here in the sheds, Adam cuts and grades the rubber." M/S of the men at work, they throw the oval lumps of rubber seen earlier into a pile. C/U of one of the lumps of rubber being cut down the centre then cut into smaller lumps. "And that’s how the raw material is prepared for civilisation - the result of woman’s work in the depths of the forest." L/S of men at work splitting the ovals of rubber.

Keywords

Women; Agriculture; Employment

Locations

South America

Written sources

The Bioscope   8 January 1930, p30.
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.115
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP115 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue

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