The Back-breaking Leaf

Release Year
1959
Runtime
29m
Genres
Documentary
Directed By
Terence Macartney-Filgate
The Back-breaking Leaf

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."

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