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Report on the adventurous trip by the Spectrum film crew, shooting Bruin Goud, a film about the cacao and chocolate production. By car, the crew drives from Amsterdam to then Ghana to record the cacao seed harvest. In the early fifties, a journey of this kind was an exceptional venture, causing quite a stir.

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Spectrum Film

Title: Dwars door de Sahara
Year: 1953
Duration : 45 minutes
Category: Short Documentary
Edition: NFF 1989

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