Lime production on the Gold Coast and the manufacture of lime juice.

The film opens with shots of locals collecting fruit from the trees in their baskets and then carrying the baskets on their heads. The commentator explains that these lime plantations stretch for ‘miles and miles as far as the eye can see’ and are all owned by Africans’. The fruit is carried – in many cases by young children – for up to ten miles to the local factory, where an African worker measures the fruit. Those delivering the limes are then paid, according to how much they have brought in, by an African man seated behind a desk. Further shots of the factory follow, highlighting in particular the social interaction between the African workers as well as the process of loading the limes. Next, the film shows local men constructing the oak casks by hand and then loading them up. The limes are then dropped into water. Rollers crush the limes and the pips are removed from the juice, which is loaded into the casks. The crushed skins are in turn used in the manufacture of jam. At frequent intervals a sample is ‘taken in a glass and analysed in a laboratory’, where African men in lab coats present the sample to a European man, who conducts a series of tests. The produce is now transported from the factory (a sign reads L. Rose and Co. Ltd’) by lorry to Cape Coast. Here surfboats take the barrels a mile out to the larger ocean vessels, where the casks are loaded. The film concludes with a further shot of the Africans rowing on the surfboats.