Reel Number: 220469-47
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1945,1940s
Country: USA
Location: Wilson, North Carolina
TC Begins: 04:39:12
TC Ends: 04:39:58
Duration: 00:00:46
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Post-WWII - 1945, USA Shortages: Dixie Belles Pick Tobacco. ca Aug45 Intertitle: Dixie Belles Pick Tobacco. 04:39:19 Train passing w/ girls volunteering to pick tobacco crop MCU of pretty young girls on moving train’s flatcar waving. MLS getting off train. 04:39:27 LS seen In field picking tobacco; mules. Low Angle / LA MCU picking leaves & loading on to wagon pulled by mules. Farmer watches; CU woman in tight blouse picking. 04:39:43 HA of group picking & loading wagon. MS Waving tobacco leaves. MCU woman sniffing blossom. Post-WW2; Oddities; Promotional Films; Bathing Beauties; Erotic; Sexist; NOTE: Story is about ending wartime cigarette shortage - rationing.