The Back-breaking Leaf (original) (raw)

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  Candid Eye
  1958 14 films
  Shot unscripted and unrehearsed, this NFB documentary series for television is a seminal offering in the history of doc filmmaking.

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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
• camera
  Terence Macartney-Filgate
• assistant director
  Gilles Gascon
• editing
  John Spotton
• sound
  Terence Macartney-Filgate
  Victor Merrill
  George Croll
• music
  Eldon Rathburn
• commentary
  Stanley Jackson
• producer
  Roman Kroitor
  Wolf Koenig
• executive producer
  Tom Daly

Ages 12 to 17

School subjects

Discuss the diverse world of the migrant workers who create a multicultural community during the tobacco harvest. Read John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" or watch the film adaptation starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise. Compare the worlds of George and Lennie and the tobacco primers in Ontario (the social order, the friendships, the challenges, etc.).