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The Back-breaking Leaf

  • January 1959
  • 29mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Tom Daly,

    Terence Macartney-Filgate,

    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."