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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221415-08
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: N/A
Country: China
Location:
TC Begins: 04:56:38
TC Ends: 05:12:33
Duration: 00:15:55
China Wood Oil For American Industry 04:57:47 Tung trees in bloom, MCU of branch & flowers. Ripe nuts hanging from leafless tree. CU. Men beating to shake loose the nuts from trees in wild; others gathering & pouring into baskets on backs. 04:59:28 Men carrying baskets on shoulder poles, dump. Shelling by hand. Pulverizing on stone grinding wheel in trough turned by hooded oxen. Man dips out pulverized kernals which are steam dried into a cake. 05:02:53 Cakes put into horizontal press; then beat w/ pole on rope. Oil is dripped into container. 05:03:59 Mechanical press run by overhead belt. Tung oil flowing. 05:04:26 Men & boys making wooden drums for shipping; sealing the indisde & stacking. Large shed of drums. 05:05:31 Barges loaded w/ drums, four men carry on shoulder poles. Unloading from boat & weighed on balance scale. Dumping oil into large vat. Chemist testing quality of oil, then drums refilled for export. Man at faucet filling drums; pairs of men carry on shoulder poles. Marking drums for shipoment. 05:08:01 Men poling large junks on river, others crank by hand. 05:08:27 Title: re exporting by 1000 American trucks over Burma Road. Men loading trucks; convoy leaving. Crossing river on ferry, POV. Men pushing wagons up road; carrying barrels on shoulder poles. Barge arriving & barrels & other goods carried aboard. 05:11:14 Large storage tanks & into tank lighters in bulk for transfer to ocean going freighters. Tanker w/ US flag on side loaded for export to United States. Petroleum Substitute; Woodfinish; Anti-rust coating;