Eve And The Bean (1930)

Coffee plantations in the West Indies keep quite a lot of natives out of mischief Various shots of a smartly dressed West Indian man looking at branch from a coffee plant, then at basket containing coffee berries. The berries are taken to the Mill and lose their outer husk, each berry separating into two M, S of men walking away from the camera carrying baskets of coffee berries on their heads. C, U of a berry being squeezed to release two coffee beans. M, S of man standing at the bottom of a chute in a huge pile of beans. He shovels the beans away from the chute as they descend. M, S of man working in shallow water washing the beans. M, S of workers filling buckets and boxes with beans. Various shots of the workers spreading out the beans to dry in the sun. When they re dried the beans possess a skin tougher than a hardhearted Tax Collector but it has to go C, U of hands of a worker who removes the skins by hand. Eve comes well into her own in the next picture, when they