Sago
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 5
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: "Far-off Borneo, where the sago palm grows - and is felled fully and frequently." L/S of a man chopping at the base of a tree trunk with a hand axe. The tree falls. Man chops the trunk into smaller pieces. "Later, this raw material for Eve’s puddings is floated downstream to the village "factory". A raft of logs is floated along a river. "The starch (from whence comes the sago) is contained in the core of the trunks. And it’s a "grate" life rasping these." M/S of two men grating the wood with large hand graters. "This is where the starch is separated - with a little help from the Borneo natives." Low angle shot of man kneading the sago with his feet. Another man pours water onto the powder at regular intervals. The water is pulled from the nearby river in a bucket. "The powder remaining is kneading with water over a strainer, and the resulting sago passes through, leaving the woody fibre behind." Various shots of the men at work.
- Researcher Comments
- A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathe boxfile.
- Keywords
- Food and cooking; Agriculture
- Locations
- Borneo
- Footage sources
- Pathe Consortium Cinema Re-issue
- Written sources
- Pathe Inventory File Tin No.206
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP206
Pathe Eve 494-515 Boxfile Issue sheet
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- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 177
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How to cite this record
'Sago', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 507, 19 Feb 1931. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/332651 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)