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Fromings Collection: Production of Malawi Darkfired Tobacco Part 4 1956
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Fromings Collection: Production of Malawi Darkfired Tobacco Part 4 1956
Filmmaker: Douglas Fromings Film showing every stage of the production of dark fired tobacco at Kasiya (40 miles from Lilongwe) in Nyasaland (Malawi), from the issue of seed to the despatch of baled leaf to the Limbe Auction floors.
Fromings supplied five typed pages of notes to accompany the film. He provided some commentary on the footage, and also covered the general background of the dark fired tobacco cultivation project.
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The film begins in bright sunlight in a clearing, where a large group of African males are sitting on the ground. Douglas Fromings (DF) is seated at a table. In his notes he identifies this as a meeting of tobacco growers in 1956, outside a village in Malawi. An African male is seated next to DF, addressing the group. DF identifies him as Simeon, the Head Instructor.
The growers are seen queuing to register and for seed issue before the film pans across seed beds being prepared for planting. Dry grass is laid on tilled and ridged beds to burn off weeds, and seed is mixed in a watering can.
A tractor pulls a trailer surrounded by a group of men, into a field. They are carrying small saplings in plastic pockets which they proceed to plant, with close-ups of this activity. This appears to be part of the afforestation programme which DF initiated and mentions in his memoir. 'Growers were encouraged to plant their own small stands of a quick growing teak called Gmelina'. Some of the planting appears to be carried out by schoolboys. This section precedes the arrival of a limousine flying a Union Jack, perhaps an official visit by a dignitary.
High-spirited football match with spectators on touchlines, at the end of which an open-topped bus pulls away, followed by another football sequence, this time with younger boys. DF's notes remark that 'Mr Mumba was very keen on football and the Board paid for a bus to bring a team from another market'.