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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220687-01-P1
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1949s1940s
Country: USA
Location: Kentucky,North Carolina,SOUTH CAROLINA,Virginia
TC Begins: 19:00:06
TC Ends: 19:23:00
Duration: 00:22:54
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1949 - Colour, USA: Tobacco Industry in Southern USA Card 1 of 2 Title. 19:00:22 View of city over trees; street scene w/ Sears sign, traffic & pedestrians. Men going into Planters Bank & Trust Co, CU sign. People at bank counter w/ tellers. 19:00:58 LS, MS & CUs, tobacco plantations, plants & leaves. High Angle / HA large tobacco warehouses, interior w/ bales of dried tobacco leaves moving on conveyors into steam chamber. Leaves steamed & Black women sort by hand, leaves untied & fed into machine to separate stem & veins, leaves up conveyor, mixing types of tobacco & put thru large drums & blended in a factory process. 19:04:11 Man adjusts blades on slicing machine & operation begins w/ finely sliced tobacco pouring out in CU onto conveyor belt to cigarette making part of factory. Man checking sliced tobacco w/ white gloves. 19:04:59 Large paper rolls feeding into machine, CU cigarettes out on conveyor belt. Woman gathering and stacking & machine automatically filling / inserted into packages. CUs. Automatic packaging, revenue stamping, cellophane wrapping & tear strip added. Packages into cartons & into Chesterfield brand boxes. 19:06:39 Small town America in autumn - Main Street & traffic. Church or city hall. Statue of John Rolfe, first to cultivate tobacco in 1612. Tobacco farmers on street corner talking - good faces. 19:07:21 Exterior 1930s Post Office. Interior man into Department of Agriculture Agricultural Conservation Association / AAA county office. Man holding smoking cigarette & handling tobacco leaves & talking w/ ag agent, shown book. 19:07:46 Sign: Tobacco Experiment Station - N.C. State College & US Dept of Agriculture cooperating. Greenhouse & men inside w/ tobacco plants. 19:08:12 Scenic shot, horse & wagon w/ large tobacco bales down country road. CU farmer mixing seeds w/ sand, etc. in tubs & seeding field by hand. Seedling beds covered w/ gauze. 19:09:02 Spring tree blossoms, tractor thru flowering orchard; farmers discing, cultivating & plowing fields w/ mules & horses. Farmer making holes w/ dibble & barefoot boy dropping transplanted plants by hand & set into dirt firmly. 19:10:22 Two young boys w/ hoes along dirt lane & into field to hoe. Man on tractor cultivating tobacco rows; older boys hoeing. Fully Grown plants. 19:11:08 July - full grown plants, men walk among plants: topping, breaking off flower stems. 19:11:37 Young boys grooming ponies, MCUs; riding. 19:11:54 Harvesting tobacco - leaves picked by hand, handfuls onto horse & mule drawn wagons / sleds & pulled to barnyard & unloaded. Whole family stringing leaves onto poles & hung in curing barn. CUs wrapping on poles & into curing barn. Interior handing to man above hung to roof. 19:14:11 Tilt down leaves to fire stove for curing. Men tend fires & check leaves as they change Colour. 19:15:14 Old man & wife / couple sorting leaves; CUs. Leaves wrapped & tied. Continued... 1940s; Agriculture; Farming; Southern USA Americana; Agricultural Workers; Laborers; NOTE: Partial or entire of 19:00:06 - 19:23:00 (2 cards) sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk