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Gardens of the Orient

The gardens here are tea gardens, and the 'Orient' is India and Sri Lanka.

Interest film 1936 10 mins

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.