Barbados in the 1950's. Archive film 9652

Barbados. A view of a beach and lagoon. A street with three people talking surrounded by palm trees and red flowers. Close up of red flowers. Sea and waves rolling in and yellow flowers. A group of people wandering about at a crossroad, a women washing clothes in a bucket. Two men and possibly a goat walk up a hill. A line of trees lead down to a grand white house. Close up of house with probably a lake in front of it. Big white government building, cars driving by. Two men walking up a hill with an old red bike. An old path surrounded by big plants, a man walking up the path in the distance. A man cutting leaves and sugar cane on a plantation. Another man cutting leaves and sugar cane. Women collecting the cane and giving it to a man on a wagon. Man passing the cane to the man on the wagon, placing the cane in a pile on the wagon. Man holding up the cane to the man on the wagon. Man on wagon collecting sugar cane and placing it in pile. On the plantation, wagon full of cane driven by horses, heads very precariously towards the houses in the distance.

On a road, a red tractor with lots of carriages full of sugar cane drives past the camera. Three men taking the cane of the wagon driven by horses. Close up of the two horses tied to the wagon. Two men helping to tie cable around the sugar cane on the back of the wagon. Cane being lifted up in a large bundle off the wagon by a crane, a man tends to the horses, wagon drives away, cane is carried by crane and dropped on to a large pile of sugar cane. Close up of china bowl full of sugar, a spoonful of sugar is lifted up and placed into a red cocktail drink. White men and women sitting in a garden outside a large white house around a table drinking cocktails, black servant places lid on the china bowls then leaves the shot. Close up of white women drinking red cocktail wearing a large straw hat. White woman and two men sitting around a table outside drinking cocktails, women places a green hat upon her head, two men are talking. Close up of black man eating raw sugar cane. Black man cutting up sugar cane in busy town environment, men and women walk by. Fade to black.

Aerial shot of Barbados coastline, blue sky and sea. In land aerial shot of Barbados, fields and houses. As if on an aeroplane that is landing, looking out of the windows watching the fields and houses past by. A silver aircraft lands on an airfield, camera stays still as plane drives by. 'Seawell airport' tall white building with palm tress in front of it. White man and woman boarding a plane. Black flight attendant next to the grounded plane. Close up of the propellers of aeroplane spinning around. Man on the airfield guiding the plane with hand signals. Aeroplane departing the airport, moving along the air field. A new aeroplane circling into position on the airfield. Women and men deporting the plane, walking down the stairs. Close up of brown leather shoes and trousers as they deport the plane. Young boy with swimming trunks on beach with spade in his hand, next to him is probably his dad holding a bucket, as they get close to the edge of the sea, little boy gets scared of the sea and runs back on to the beach. Sailing boat moored on the sea shore, black men are dealing with the boat, while white men, women and children play in the sea around them. Three white teenage boys sailing a small yacht in the sea, other larger sailing boats are behind them. A floating raft, that has the appearance of a 'floating bar', a black man serves drinks to the three white men aboard. Two white men in a speed boat speed by, passing other larger boats in the sea. White women on the beach, dressed in a smart white sundress, drinking from a glass, looking out to sea. White woman and man in swimwear sitting on the beach. View of the sea, the waves rolling inland, a white man and a women sit on a surf board. White man sitting in a deckchair, with the sea behind him. Young white girl in blue swim wear building a sand castle on the beach. The seashore, people are swimming and a boat is trying to set sail. Two white women in swimwear sitting on the beach drinking cocktails. Black woman, dressed in red and white servants uniform with apron, carrying a tray of empty cocktail glasses, walking besides the beach. White man dressed in swim wear, walking away from the sea towards the beach, has the appearance of evening light.
Blue car driving down a neat road towards a big white house surrounded by trees. Another white house, grand porch area, lots of trees and shrubs in front of it. Dancing at a bar beside the beach, man shaking maracas.