" TOBACCOLAND USA " TOBACCO CULTIVATION & MANUFACTURING OF CIGARETTES IN AMERICAN SOUTH EAST XD44864
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- Опубліковано 9 бер 2022
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Note: Cigarette smoking kills more than 480,000 Americans and more than 8 million worldwide each year. The USA spends more than $300 billion a year on smoking-related illness every year. At least 70 of the chemicals in tobacco smoke are known to cause cancer.
“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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I'm sitting here at my desk looking at my grandfather's old metal Chesterfield cigarette box. He started smoking during the war, but gave it up cold turkey when he had a heart attack at age 44. Then he lived another half-century, but he admitted to me not a day went by that he didn't want a Chesterfield.
America's legalized addictive drug. Its said to be more addictive than heroin.
I'm dying for a Chesterfield right now myself.
Yeah, I'm 62 and I quit smoking years ago. BUT if a completely safe cigarette or cigar were ever invented I would buy a case of them hahaha.
As a native of North Carolina it's interesting to see the change that has happened with the Tobacco Fields. Where once there were miles and miles of the plants, they have been replaced with another sun loving item, Solar Panels. The same reason they were perfect for the plants are the same reason they are great for the panels. Full Sunlight nearly year round. So much tobaccoland has been converted that NC is third in the nation for Solar Electric Production. Irony of it all its Duke Energy, yes the descendant of the Duke Tobacco family, has built these.
An amazing look at the old American tobacco industry from only about 82 years ago, it certainly was a different world!
Tobacco helps Americans. Its bad for us and smells gross. But it was a cash cow that got the United States coffers full of gold. Thank you God for blessing the United States with tobacco.
@@lestersabados1306 when yo realize the cannabis industry is bigger now
My family and I grew Burley tobacco in Kentucky until I was about 35 years old. It was hard work from start to finish just like in this film. We used small tractors not mules except we had mules to pull a cultivating plow. I remember burning tobacco beds; I was too young to help much and we later used bromine gas to sterilize the soil. Set the plants out with a tractor drawn setter ....unless the ground was too wet, then we did it by hand like in the movie. Hoeing and chopping weeds all summer , before the chemical weed control was invented. We pulled off the lower leaves and strung them up on wire so the plant could mature. Priming. We cured these in the barn before the plant was cut and hung. That was the hardest part. Then we stripped the leaves off and graded them into 5 grades and tied them in Hands( small bundles) like in the movie. Sold it like the movie and got enough money to do it again next year. Life was simpler and good life but hard. Now it is different. People won't work like that any more and life is fast. The good times are past and gone forever.
That video makes me wanna have a couple tobacco crops with my plants this year, the good times are only gone if you give up on them, I like growing plants because it makes me feel connected to my ancestors who farmed and ranched to live, the good times live on if you keep them alive. People respect your work when you carry on traditions that are beginning to fade away, maybe you could grow some tobaccos this year to connect with what seems lost, and even if you live in the city and have no land to grow on I'm sure there's other traditions and knowledge you could help carry for future generations to learn, your story about cultivating has information that many modern people wouldn't even know about
I lived in North Carolina a few years ago. In my travels around it was sad to see every little town had abandoned tobacco facilities, empty hardwood furniture plants, or ruins of textile mills. Plenty of thriving taverns and churches though.
I enjoyed Chesterfield cigarettes along with other brands for 57 years. I stopped 3 years ago when a pack of high quality cigarettes fetched 6 dollars per pack. The state of Florida ruined the enjoyment by increasing taxes on each pack to an exorbitant amount. I could smoke a 3 foot long cigarette now because they were that soothing, but not for the price now-a-days per pack... 😁
Thank you a great historical picture
Grew up working our tobacco fields in southwest VA with my family in the 90's. It was a major part of our income. It was hard work for sure, but I look back on it fondly now.
To be honest it's rare that I watch a video all the way though if it over a half hour but this one had me intrigued. Watched the whole thing this time. It felt like a time machine watching these old timers do there thing
*their thing
@@yanikkunitsin1466 Thank you for the correction; I shake my head at how ignorant/lazy are some.
@Jason Adams i solute your lack of grammar
@@yanikkunitsin1466 salute
A 1940 promotional film, produced by the editors of "The March of Time" (narrated by Westbrook Van Voohris) for Liggett & Myers, the makers of Chesterfield {"They Satisfy"}.
Watched this just to see the process from beginning to end. It is incredible what a complex chain of events it is. Humans are so ingenious. How much experimentation and refinement and knowledge went into this process?! Centuries of effort and thinking.
Just watched a YT vid of a gunsmith from the 1700's making a flint lock rifle. Again, amazing amounts of effort, patience, and skill that just makes you realize how talented human beings are.
While ago watched a modern vid on the traditional way of tanning animal hides. It is about a 20 step process that is difficult and takes real brains (ha-ha). Always makes me think: who figured this out?
This was the old process. The modern process is a bit different. They chemically leach all the chemicals out of the tobacco leaves. Process the leaves into pulp, and then make a tissue paper out of it. They spray the chemicals leached out earlier back onto the paper but at the concentrations they want. They can hold quality very steady. Then they shred the tissue paper back into what looks like shredded leaves.
When tobacco wasn't tainted
Longest cigarette commercial ever!! Before tobacco was made in a chemical factory--
More accurately: before cigarettes were made in a chemical factory--
Too bad the “My body, my choice“ doesn’t apply to tobacco . I was born in the wrong period! Love this video
This documentary is definitely not sponsored by Chesterfield cigarette company 🤭 😅
Nah, it's a very interesting documentary. Awesome to see how it been done back in the days.
This film is an absolute gem. Thank you.
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Fascinating.
My mother and Grandfather grew tobacco at the time of this movie. She has told me stories about using arsenic of lead as a pesticide. Applied to each plant by hand with a cloth bag they shook over the plant. I don't live in South Carolina any more, but when I do go back, the farms are all gone. What once was a farmers field is now someones lawn. And I don't just mean tobacco. Cotton, corn, soy beans. If you see a field, its at least 50 aches and its one of many that farmer has. Farming is big business these days. A way of life gone.
I am so happy to be free of tobacco! I highly recommend this book, "Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking". I smoked for 50 years and I am the happiest non-smoker you have ever seen. It is a scandal that the government makes money on this terrible habit and cause of illness.
@vip47287 And if you stand in front of a car and get hit, you may not get killed. Wouldn't it be better just to avoid that risk?
My dad smoked Chesterfield cigarettes died when I was three and a half years old 1967 six and a half cents wow the government was greedy how many people they killed and injured with tobacco addiction🇨🇦🇨🇦
you ought to see what they get on hard liquor!! Jack Daniels leaves the dock untaxed at $3,95 a fifth! at least half the price is tax!!
Beech nut chewing tobacco 😎👍chew'n it watching this video
My grandfather grew hay in the NE for his cattle and horses.. I'm thinking he should've been in the tobacco business.. heh. Boy I miss those days.
People can say what they want about tobacco and I get it. Smoking is dangerous. PERIOD. BUT when the tobacco industry collapsed in North Carolina thousands of farming families were out of work, communities were hurt and other businesses died. Even today you can go through some of those communities and see run down area. The old farms have been sold and subdivided and now you have housing developments. A whole culture and way of life was lost.
A very good episode of the manufacturing of tabacoo now I know how cigarettes were made that made my mother cough All the time she would put mints in her mouth to stop coughing and my dad would have yellow fingers
If she smoked after 1970 thats when they started adding additives to tobacco. That would be why.
@@LuminousAnima Smoker’s cough existed from the very first day humans started to inhale smoke. It’s unnatural and your lungs will tell you so.
@@jacksons1010 I smoke tobacco from the 1960s and I don't have a problem
@@jacksons1010 Can we invoke common sense here? Does anyone think that inhaling an unknown combination of hot smoking chemicals year after year is good for you?
@@littleshopofelectrons4014 Well, see the reply above and you tell me. Seems we have at least one commenter suggesting exactly that.
Time to pack my peterson with some fine virginia/burley and enjoy video.
Worked plenty of Connecticut Valley shade and broadleaf.
This documentary made me cry with happiness.
Durham nothing like this anymore
@@ericjackson9256 We know smoking tobacco isn't good for our health but I miss the times when people were allowed to smoke in most places, they seemed sane back then.
I wonder how long it took the Ellis family to realize that tractors would save them a lot of work?
Here Is What Is Really Strangling the Energy Transition
But the long decline of smoking in America idled many tobacco fields, and now farmers are eyeing a new crop.
Instead of converting sunshine into bright-leaf tobacco, some of them want to convert it into electricity. This sunny region of the east-central Carolinas is an excellent place to build solar farms, with its plentiful land, sparse population, gentle terrain and need for economic development. Dec. 16, 2022 [The New York Times] 16:41
Well very interesting video I always enjoy looking back in time this ..was a time when we were naive shall we say about this kind of product.
Always like to see how things used to be in my state
I grew up in Durham, NC
I was one of the last employees to work at Durham Tobacco Company
Good Times....I hate to see them gone
America! we should Learn!
I’m no smoker, and I don’t support the tobacco industry by any means, but I have to say, this film is pretty remarkable.
"Hardly a cough in a carload" love seeing the trad life on the farm, todays homesteads can take note, Ultra Maga Country!!
My brand of Cigarette was Winston. I just turned 55 years old and am so grateful I stopped smoking at age 21. Live well everyone there is life beyond that pack of cigarettes......
Cigarette taxes addicted government to tobacco too. No reason to discourage it.
"Chesterfields" (a whole pack) were issued in military C-rations. Free tobacco. Good times.
It was a pack of 4 rather than 20, and the brand varied - not just Chesterfields. Lucky Strike and Camel were pretty common. Modern MRE’s include matches, but no tobacco.
@@jacksons1010 I always thought it was a pack of four too. But, I saw a video where an unopened C-ration contained a pack of 20. I don't remember what year it was.
I only mentioned "Chesterfields" because that's what was on the video.
I believe they stopped including tobacco in C-rations in the early '70s.
and K rats had 4 packs and different companies provided them!!!
@@jacksons1010 no C rats had full 20 packs it was K rats had the 4 packs!
@@neilmanhard1341 no C rats had a full 20 pack it was the K rats that had the 4 packs and it was the mid 70's right before the MRE was introduced!!
Maybe I'll buy a pack
Wonder is that museum is still there and as it was 82 years ago
Uncle Sam with his 6 cents. Wonder, where they do Chesters now?
Blackening America......One Lung At A Time. Yes, American Tobacco And You....Fueling The Medical Industry For Years To Come.
In most cases, cigarette smoking cut down on long-term health care.
I’m going to open a tobacco themed amusement park named Tobaccoland
I love how the schools had no one of colour.
When life was good. Men were working fathers and women were caring, loving mothers. See them canning like that and ugh. Cars are like women. They dont make em like they used to.
Damn it cameraman!! Your as bad as my dad at home movies!
This remastering of transfer to video is making me seasick
I thought a bulb , but by seed smoke like weed , why chemicals. , Trying to kill people
Everything you show is in the public domain.
It's sad to see how our country has changed. Now tobacco is viewed as an evil but all types of perversion are viewed as good and the public schools groom the children for every imaginable evil.
You know, as much as people hate on tobacco, regardless of the harm cigarettes do, it was an industry that fed kids, bought homes and funded the government.
If we were growing cocaine on heroin, we'd lalegally. You could say the same thing about those industries
Nicotine is an insecticide
Addiction you buy for sure
Did you notice the faces of the workers on the assembly line. A more miserable persona could not be found 😞 seriously look at those loading the trucks as well. Just constant drudgery for such a “pleasurable “ product. 😂😂. 🚬
Seriously look at ANY factory employee doing repetitive drudgery-involved work; pleasure is NOT involved, no matter the product.
I wonder if the company will take responsibility for the 1000s of people their product killed from lung cancer🤔🤬
Kind-of like firearms killing people without someone to pull the trigger, right?
That's some window into the past.
Growing death by the acre and trying to slap a wholesome productive family face on it all. Keep them ignorant, addicted and buying. Those tactics are still used today in the relentless pursuit of profits.
👈Reddit is that way
This was pure tobacco grown on a _wholesome, productive family farm_ and processed without one drop of any of the bullshit added poison addictive chemical cancers of the present.
Try again to shame the past before corporate greed took over.
Are you talking about tobacco, or the pharmaceutical industry?
@@SixteenChickens Clearly the tobacco industry, as per the video.
Elements within the pharmaceutical industry are also guilty of similar practices.
@@medicbabe2ID Nicotine IS a poisonous and addictive chemical as it is, hence it's use to begin with, like any drug with utility. Corporate greed just ramped it up by introducing other chemical compounds in order to serve it's own ends.
And "shaming the past"? A little too much moron with your oxy there buddy.
@@skateboardingjesus4006 they “followed the science” !
90% of the population smoked and lived their life the way they chose. They knew of no link to cancers from smoking! And with the cancer rates not declining since democrats destroyed their industry the science is starting to show that the real cancer is government lawyers raking in billions from lawsuits playing on peoples emotions! Next up… an apple a day will bring cancer your way!!! And the mask wearing sheep will do as their told! 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑