Paradise of the Caribbean

Duration: 10 min

Genre: Geography

Creator: Universal

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Jamaica, an outpost of Britain, with its "English" population—77% dark-skinned. Native industries and produce—tobacco, sugar cane, cocoa, mangoes, ginger and hardwoods. Weaving hats. Cultivating sugar fields. Digging ginger root. Harvesting cocoanuts and bananas. Nature beauteous and bountiful.

Metadata Source:Bell & Howell Filmosound Library Catalog of Educational Motion Pictures, 1942