History of Tea

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1978

Creator: Walter J. Klein Company Ltd.

Complete Record: Story of the history of tea told by a caricature of a 19th century elderly British man. Two women and one man in traditional Chinese dress sit around table drinking tea, three women and one man in traditional African dress stand and sip tea, both scenes are obviously on a set. British man in his sixties with a white mustache and quasi military wears stokes a fire and sits in a red leather armchair in an old fashioned living room while talking to the camera. Scene of men in traditional Chinese dress on reddish pink set making and drinking tea. Animated sequence of people drinking tea around the world. Scenes of African women in enormous tea gardens harvesting tea leaves. Shot of London skyline. Shots of tea being shipped packaged and processed in a factory and stored in warehouses. Old British man runs toward camera in navy exercise wear while a man in 18th century clothes chases after him and serves him iced tea. Old man makes fortune cookie and iced tea. Montage of people in 1970s era clothes preparing tea and serving it to friends.