The Back-breaking Leaf
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."
- Year: 1959
- Country: Canada
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: ONF | NFB
- Keyword: tobacco, ontario, canada, harvest, field work
- Director: Terence Macartney-Filgate
- Cast: Stanley Jackson