Director: Kenneth Villiers
Summary: PROPAGANDA. The way in which Indian hill tribes make contributions to the War effort.
An annual religious festival accompanied by music and dancing is something the hillmen look forward to with pleasure (182). The years between the celebrations of this festival are busier than usual as the people join in the struggle for peace. Goats assume added importance to their owners as whole families earn their living by producing wool and weaving blankets for the fighting men (268). The wartime demand for timber has meant extensive tree felling. Tree trunks are lowered into the valley's, down chutes into the rivers and floated to the plains towns. At the end of the season, even the chutes are dismantled and sent down-stream (375). Gas-producing plants need a steady supply of charcoal. The hillmen pile up logs, cover them with packed earth and burn them slowly to turn them to charcoal (453). Resin gatherers, once casual workers are now fully employed collecting resin for turpentine and rosin production (523). Silk-worm cultivation and the production of silk thread is another industry that has been expanded by wartime demand (580). Crushed and ground chestnuts yield good quantities of starch. The chestnut residue is used as a basis for bread (655). Tea picking has become so necessary that there are not enough workers to meet the demand. Picking, weighing, drying and packing tea are all processes requiring a large number of people (746). Even potato production is an economic proposition (772). All these essential goods are carried down the mountains by the hillmen themselves (791). In the towns, they can enlist in the army (825) and go to training camps to prepare for war (871)
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