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Terence Macartney-Filgate

The Back-breaking Leaf

  • Documentary
RELEASE

1959-01-02

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

29 min

Description

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."