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Sisal

United Kingdom, 1945
film

An account of the cultivation and treatment of sisal, a raw material for rope making, in Tanganyika. Shows the way in which the leaves are removed from the si..

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Silk

United Kingdom, 1976
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Textiles

United Kingdom, 1950
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Fibrous plaster in Australia

Australia, 1966
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Africa: the land and its people. No. 3

South Africa, 1946
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The World of cashmere

United Kingdom, 1966
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This is rubber

United Kingdom, 1954
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Cotton goods

United States, 1930
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Naturally it's rubber

United Kingdom, 1960
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Yarn and cloth construction

United States, 1948
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Paper chain

United Kingdom, 1958
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Tobacco supply of the world

United Kingdom, 1949
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A World of difference

United Kingdom, 1963
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Tea from Nyasaland

United Kingdom, 1946
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Subsistence agriculture: sago

Australia, 1970
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Cotton

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Tobacco growing

United Kingdom, 1949
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The Fibre web

United Kingdom, 1963
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Produce of Malaya

Malaysia, 1963
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