The Back-breaking Leaf
9.5 (2)1959-01-0229m
Documentary
Overview
Here is a graphic picture of the tobacco harvest in southwestern Ontario. At the end of July, transient field workers move in for a brief bonanza when the plant is ripe. The tobacco harvesters call it "the back-breaking leaf."
- Production
- ONF | NFB
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Crew
- Director
- Terence Macartney-Filgate
- Producers
- Tom Daly,Wolf Koenig,Roman Kroitor
- Cinematography
- Terence Macartney-Filgate
- Composer
- Eldon Rathburn
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