Cuba: The Island of Sugar - ca. 1923

A very early silent documentary on the sugar industry in Cuba, focusing on Havana. Cutting 110000 acres of forest to create the Canagua sugar plantation. Cane cutting. Ox carts take cane to train. Railroad car dumping. Conveyor to crushers. Grinding mill. Press to remove juice. Waste bagasse to boilers. Settling tanks. Steam heated evaporators. Sugar crystallization. Molasses removal by centrifugal extractors. Raw sugar weighed, bagged and shipped. Scenes in and around Havana.