" TOBACCOLAND USA " TOBACCO CULTIVATION & MANUFACTURING OF CIGARETTES IN AMERICAN SOUTH EAST XD44864

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“Tobaccoland USA” is a newsreel style film that was commissioned by the Liggett & Myers Tobacco & Co, the company behind Chesterfield Cigarettes, and produced by the March of Time in 1939. The film is set predominantly in Durham, North Carolina - the heart of Tobaccoland - follows the various stages of producing Chesterfields from growing and harvesting to manufacturing and export. The film specifically highlights the role of the Ellis’, a tobacco farming family, as they go from the initial seed bed preparation to their end of harvest celebration.

Tobacco crop farmer (0:11). Steam engine train (0:14). Interior of passenger train (0:17). Train pulling into station Durham, North Carolina (0:33). Downtown Durham (0:41). Mailboxes Chapel Hill, North Carolina (0:51). University of North Carolina (UNC) bell tower (0:55). UNC graduation (1:00). Duke University campus (1:20). Interior Duke University Chapel (1:34). Museum, former home of Washington Duke (2:05). Durham U.S. Post Office (2:21). Messenger entering Durham Federal Building (2:29). Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company check via Fidelity Bank in Durham, NC for IRS/ US Treasury (2:33). Internal revenue tax stamps (2:38). Employees at Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. factory (2:44). Packaging Chesterfields (2:53). Aerial shot factories (3:00). Employees walking, building with Chesterfield sign (3:12). Employees leaving factory (3:17). Visitors book for Chesterfield Factory (3:29). Chesterfield Cigarettes at plants in Durham, San Francisco, and Richmond, Virginia (3:36). Packaging boxes (3:51). Wrapping cartons of Chesterfields in Dupont #300 moisture proof cellophane (4:06). Packaging machine (4:08). Cigarette rolling machine (4:28). Factory workers (4:38). Chesterfield tobacco buyers (5:00). Map of United States including St. Louis, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland (5:14). Liberty Warehouse No. 1: Satterfield & Stone Durham, NC (5:25) Tobacco auction Roycroft’s Warehouse, Durham (5:37). Tobacco buyers investigate crop (5:50). New crop entering Chesterfield factory, sorted by factory workers (7:09). Conditioning tobacco leaf (7:44). Animation of tobacco drying chamber (8:03). Packing away dried leaves into hogsheads, same method since old Virginia Colony (8:11). Tobacco aging at Chesterfield warehouses (8:36). Truck transports hogsheads (8:50). Gathering of tobacco farmers (9:33). Nature of Durham County, North Carolina (10:03). Ellis Family (10:16). Ellis Chapel and cemetery (10:19). Reverend Miller Dunn of Ellis Chapel (10:40). Durand Ellis patriarch of family (11:07). Ellis farming activities with livestock, butter churning, preserves & soap making (11:18). US Department of Agriculture Tobacco Culture Manual (12:18). Wood harvest (12:25). Farmers starting seed bed (13:02). Closeup of tobacco seeds demonstration (13:27). Tarp covering tobacco field (14:10). Ploughing fields (14:23). Benefits of fertilizer (14:56). Transplanting day on Ellis’ farm (16:04). Harvesting tobacco seedlings (16:38). Transplanting seedlings (17:10). Buyers exiting Liggett & Myers Tobacco Inc. Office (17:58). Field fully-grown tobacco (18:12). Buyers viewing tobacco fields from Ford Model 91 A Deluxe Tudor Sedan (18:23). Ellis family barbecue, Bob Johnson Chesterfield buyer in attendance (19:19). Beginning of tobacco harvest (20:48). Tobacco curing barn (21:44). Flue curing Southern Bright tobacco, animated diagram of process (22:35). Sorting cured leaf (23:42). Chesterfield Durham Warehouses (24:35). Hogsheads of tobacco arriving (24:46). Chesterfield blending process (25:18). Conditioning chamber (25:34). Stemming in stemerry (25:54). Turkish tobacco at port (26:52). Map Eastern Europe: Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Aegean Sea, Black Sea (26:54). U.S. Customs Service supervising Turkish tobacco (27:26). Sign for Smyrna Turkish tobacco leaf (27:53). Blending of various tobaccos (28:02). Shredding tobacco leaves by high-speed rotary cutting machines (28:38). Finished cigarettes (29:28). Ellis Family farmhouse (29:42). Close-up of cast-iron oven (30:10). Couples leaving for annual Duke North Carolina game (30:25). Midnight rally and bonfire (30:41). Duke college dance (30:57). Packed football stadium (31:09).

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