The Back-breaking Leaf

The Back-breaking Leaf

0h 29m 1959 Documentary Canada
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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."

Director

Terence Macartney-Filgate

Writer