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Gardens of the Orient
The gardens here are tea gardens, and the 'Orient' is India and Sri Lanka.
Overview
This portrait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly there are no exploited workers here… However, the film provides an intriguing overview of tea production - from the planting of tea seeds to the final shipping of the precious leaves across the globe.
This government film is a public record, preserved and presented by the BFI National Archive on behalf of The National Archives, home to more than 1,000 years of British history.
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