Pt. 2 of 2
Virginia - rainbow in sky above tobacco crop. Tobacco crop picked in Autumn - leaves picked by hand. Black women & little kid working outside sheds bundle leaves onto sticks - bundles hung up in curing barn by men standing on poles - farmer turns on oil heater.
20:24:30 Bare field. INT farmer checks progress of curing - bundles of tobacco leaves turning brown. Farmer & Black helpers separate cured leaves into grades - VO re skill involved in grading. Bundles loaded onto truck for auction. Truck convoy along country roads - past sign: Danville 18 - Reidsville N.C. 43. Trucks thru town, arrive at Mycroft’s auction market. GOOD
20:27:14 INT baskets of tobacco weighed. Buyers follow auctioneer down line of tobacco handling bundles of leaves & bidding - purchase slips dropped onto piles. Farmer redeems purchase slip for cash at office.
20:28:02 County fairground, good scenes w/ rides & sideshows - seals balancing balls on noses. Kid eating toffee apple - ferris wheel - banner advertising ‘Bearded Fat Lady’. Parents w/ kids. Farmers inspect latest farm equipment - new tractors etc. Tobacco, fruit & vegetables in competition at fair.
20:29:29 Truck loaded w/ huge barrels of aged tobacco unloaded at Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. - hogshead barrels removed. Bales of dry tobacco along conveyor into steam chamber to become more pliable - Chesterfield process.
20:30:44 Black women separating bundles of tobacco, put into crates - leaves along conveyor for stemming - reconditioning - blending in mechanical mixers - aromatic Turkish tobacco added. Tobacco “cake” into slicing machine.
20:33:52 Cigarette-making room, tobacco into paper rolling machine & finished cigarettes along conveyor at rate of 1200 per minute - women workers operating packaging machinery. CU machines.
20:35:20 Farmer surveys Autumnal landscape - VO “proud that on him depends a major American industry...” INT farmer lights & smoking cigarette while listening to radio - commercial for Chesterfield cigarettes.
Farming / Agriculture; Tobacco Industry; Manufacturing; Smoking; Rural Americana; Race; Segregation; South; Household; Blacks; 1947; 1940s; Recreation; Cigarettes; Advertising; Daily Life;
NOTE: GOOD color. Each/any continuous minute sold at per reel rate.
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Pt. 2 of 2 Virginia - rainbow in sky above tobacco crop. Tobacco crop picked in Autumn - leaves picked by hand. Black women & little kid working outside sheds bundle leaves onto sticks - bundles hung up in curing barn by men standing on poles - farmer turns on oil heater. 20:24:30 Bare field. INT farmer checks progress of curing - bundles of tobacco leaves turning brown. Farmer & Black helpers separate cured leaves into grades - VO re skill involved in grading. Bundles loaded onto truck for auction. Truck convoy along country roads - past sign: Danville 18 - Reidsville N.C. 43. Trucks thru town, arrive at Mycroft’s auction market. GOOD 20:27:14 INT baskets of tobacco weighed. Buyers follow auctioneer down line of tobacco handling bundles of leaves & bidding - purchase slips dropped onto piles. Farmer redeems purchase slip for cash at office. 20:28:02 County fairground, good scenes w/ rides & sideshows - seals balancing balls on noses. Kid eating toffee apple - ferris wheel - banner advertising ‘Bearded Fat Lady’. Parents w/ kids. Farmers inspect latest farm equipment - new tractors etc. Tobacco, fruit & vegetables in competition at fair. 20:29:29 Truck loaded w/ huge barrels of aged tobacco unloaded at Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. - hogshead barrels removed. Bales of dry tobacco along conveyor into steam chamber to become more pliable - Chesterfield process. 20:30:44 Black women separating bundles of tobacco, put into crates - leaves along conveyor for stemming - reconditioning - blending in mechanical mixers - aromatic Turkish tobacco added. Tobacco “cake” into slicing machine. 20:33:52 Cigarette-making room, tobacco into paper rolling machine & finished cigarettes along conveyor at rate of 1200 per minute - women workers operating packaging machinery. CU machines. 20:35:20 Farmer surveys Autumnal landscape - VO “proud that on him depends a major American industry...” INT farmer lights & smoking cigarette while listening to radio - commercial for Chesterfield cigarettes. Farming / Agriculture; Tobacco Industry; Manufacturing; Smoking; Rural Americana; Race; Segregation; South; Household; Blacks; 1947; 1940s; Recreation; Cigarettes; Advertising; Daily Life; NOTE: GOOD color. Each/any continuous minute sold at per reel rate.