A Story of the Tropics
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1991.21.10
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Explorers Club
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content: Explorers Club films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (33 minutes, color sound; 1188 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film produced by John Carter and sponsored by the Explorers Club presents problems of life in the Tropics with particular emphasis on food production and cash crops. Tropical regions are divided into four principal areas: wet tropics (countries with rain forests), wet-dry tropics (east Africa, Thailand, India and Hong Kong), dry tropics (Peru and Africa), and upland tropics (Peru and Ceylon). Scenes include: growing rice, fruit, coconut, and rubber in wet tropics; growing mango and starfruit and Masai life in the wet-dry tropics; growing date palms and use of camels in dry tropics; growing coffee and sisal and Tamil harvesters in upland tropics; and the Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Florida. Film is narrated by Lowell Thomas.