Tobacco Industry in Southern USA 220687-01 | Footage Farm

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1949 - Color, USA: Tobacco Industry in Southern USA]
19:15:58 MCU & MS Picking corn; leaves & stocks into grinder for animal fodder, Black laborers operate shredder & shucking corn, & throwing corn ears into truck or wagon
19:16:37 Sign: Barn Dance Tonight. String band w/ fiddle, guitars & dancing. MCUs & CU polished shoes tapping to music. Country square & round dancing. CU hands keeping time clapping. Girl eating ice cream cone sitting between two men. Family, community.
19:17:23 Autumn - trees losing leaves, LS of hill country. Tobacco leaves on poles handed out of barn & loaded on trailer; covered trailer pulled by car to auction / market. Jeep pulling wagon loaded; truck past. 19:17:59 Sign: Danville Virginia, World’s Best Tobacco Market. Street lined w/ parked cars; CU newspaper office; interior w/ man & small press looking at headlines re Tobacco Sales Heavy.
19:18:24 Truck into Auction warehouse, Black man tapping stick & gesturing. Tobacco weighed in on wheelbarrow & given weight tag. CU man operating scale. Men smoking & inspecting & bidding on tobacco lots.
19:18:54 CU auctioneer calling / chanting; CUs, MSs buyers in suits & hats handling leaves.
19:19:16 Men at windows, farmers collecting checks / payment.
19:19:29 Americana - small town USA - kids outside drug store, pedestrians along sidewalk, farmers.
19:19:41 Barbershop interior, men & boy getting haircuts from 3 Black barbers in three barber’s chairs. Men waiting reading & talking. MS hair cutting.
19:20:02 County Fair midway / funfair, high angle / HA over crowds, tents & rides. 3 Ferris wheels; children riding in small cars on carousel / roundabouts. Merry go round. Outdoor high wire / tightrope performers, LS & MSs. MCU spectators watching. Entertainment.
19:20:58 New farming equipment exhibited / on display at fair. Cattle & sow w/ piglets exhibited. Farmers wives in tent inspecting display of jars / bottles of home made canned fruit & vegetables. Prize winning eggs. Vegetable display. Prize winning tobacco inspected & blue ribbon on winner. Winner talking w/ others, MCUs.
19:22:39 Tobacco plantation field shots summary. The End
1940s; Agriculture; Farming; Southern USA Americana; Workers;
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