- Title: VM-1446
- Summary: TOBACCO: GROWING & HARVESTING TOBACCO FOR CEYLON TOBACCO COMPANY.
- Description:00:01:36 - CU GREEN TOBACCO LEAF IN GROUND. 00:01:41 - PAN VARIOUS SCENES TOBACCO CROP IN FIELD. 00:01:46 - FIELDS COVERED WITH WHITE CLOTH. 00:02:24 - CU NATIVE WORKER TAKES SEVERAL HANDS FULL OF TOBACCO SEEDS FROM CAN LETTING SEEDS POUR THROUGH FINGERS & INTO PAN 00:02:29 - CAREFULLY SCOOPS UP TABLESPOON OF SEED FROM PAN & STIRS IT INTO SPRINKLER CAN OF WATER HELD BY ANOTHER NATIVE WORKER. 00:02:34 - WORKER WATERS CULTIVATED BEDS WITH SPRINKLER CAN CONTAINING WATER & SEED. 00:03:12 - NATIVE WORKER WALKS AMID HUGE TOBACCO FIELD TENTED WITH WHITE CLOTH TO PROTECT FROM RAIN & BRIGHT SUNSHINE. HARSH WEATHER 00:03:17 - GROUPS OF BLACK NATIVE WOMEN IN NATIVE DRESS CARRY SPRINKLER CANS FULL OF WATER ON THEIR HEADS. 00:03:21 - WOMEN DISPURSE THROUGHOUT LARGE FIELD & WATER GROUND WITH CLOTH ROLLED BACK) 00:04:01 - HUNDREDS OF TINY WHITE TOBACCO BUDS FILL GROUND. 00:04:06 - CU PAN SMALL TOBACCO BUDS AFTER THEY'VE TURNED GREEN. 00:04:11 - CU BIGGER PLANT AFTER GROWTH 00:04:16 - NATIVE WORKERS STOOP OVER TO UP PULL PLANTS 00:05:06 - NATIVE DRIVER PLOWS FIELD WITH TRACTOR. 00:05:11 - MALE CEYLONESE WORKERS IN NATIVE DRESS OF SKIRTS & BARE FEET CULTIVATE FIELD WITH HOES. 00:05:21 - CU SMOOTH OUT GROUND WITH HOES. 00:05:31 - VARIOUS VIEWS LARGE HEALTHY DARK GREEN TOBACCO PLANTS IN FIELD 00:08:29 - CU WORKER PLUCKS FLOWER OFF TOBACCO PLANT WITH HEAVY GREEN LEAVES. 00:08:34 - NATIVE WORKER REMOVES UNNECESSARY LEAVES. PRUNNING 00:08:44 - NATIVE CHECKS EACH LEAF ON PLANTS FOR RIPENESS. 00:09:20 - FEMALE WORKER IN SARI PICKS RIPE LEAVES OFF PLANT ONE AT A TIME. 00:09:50 - PICKERS CARRY BUNDLES OF CURED LEAVES ON HEADS & LAY THEM DOWN BEFORE GROUP OF WOMEN SORTERS SEATED ON GROUND. 00:10:15 - VARIOUS VIEWS FEMALE WORKERS SORTING LEAVES PLACING EACH CATEGORY IN SEPARATE BINS. 00:10:57 - CU FEMALE WORKERS ADEPTLY TIE LEAVES ON LONG STICKS ON RACKS. 00:11:02 - MALE WORKERS TAKE STICKS WITH LEAVES OFF RACKS & CARRY THEM INTO BARN. 00:11:07 - CU DRIED TOBACCO LEAVES ON STICKS. RACKS OF LEAVES ARE PLACED ON CIRCULAR PILE FOR CURING. 00:11:30 - CURING STICKS CAREFULLY REMOVED 00:12:14 - LARGE CROUP OF YOUNG WOMEN SEATED ON GROUND REMOVING LEAVES & STRINGS FROM STICKS. CAREFULLY BUNDLED FOR TRANSPORT. 00:12:24 - CU GIRLS' HANDS REMOVING STRINGS FROM LEAVES 00:13:49 - PAN WOMEN SEATED ON GROUND CAREFULLY CRATING TOBACCO LEAVES. 00:13:54 - PAN TO YOUNG WOMAN REMOVING LEAVES FROM STRINGS IN FRONT OF TABLES FULL OF TOBACCO LEAVES OUTSIDE 00:13:59 - CU NATIVE WOMEN'S HANDS PLACES VARIETY OF LEAVES IN THREE SEPARATE BINS OF CRATE. 00:15:08 - PAN "CEYLON TOBACCO CO." WAREHOUSE. 00:15:13 - CU MAN'S HAND FEELS QUALITY OF TOBACCO LEAF 00:15:35 - WORKERS HANDS TIGHTLY STACKING TOBACCO LEAVES IN CRATE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1957
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1446
