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Tobacco processing in a factory and making cigarettes.
Recording describes the process through which dry tobacco leaf is converted in finished product as cigarette. Buildings and traffic in a Southern American city. Sign on the entrance of a bank reads 'Planters Bank & Trust Co.'. People at counters in bank. Tobacco farm and tobacco plants. Warehouses containing dry tobacco leafs. Tobacco leafs transferred to steam chambers for processing. Man at steam chamber controls. Women separate leafs and leaves put into baskets. Leaves pass on air pressure pipelines. Leaves are further processed by women before transferred into factory. Tobacco leaves are put into machine where stems are cut off. Tobacco leaves then put into machine for blending. Technicians and workers at machines. Equipment in a factory. Slicing of tobacco bales done by putting it into a machine with rotary blades. Shows man at machine. Fluffy masses of blended tobacco goes to cigarette making machine through conveyor belts. Cigarette produced in factory. Women near machines make cigarettes. Finished cigarettes at packaging machines. Men pack cigarette packets into cartons.
Tobacco growing and harvesting at tobacco farm.
Chesterfield Cigarette packets put into cartons by men in a factory. Cartons move on conveyor belt. Houses, traffic, pedestrians and church in a city. A monument in the city. Men discuss outside a building. Man enters office. Door sign reads 'Agriculture Conservation Association AAA County Office'. Men at desk examine tobacco leaves and share documents. Sign 'Tobacco Experiment Station'. Tobacco plants at experimental stations. Tobacco bundles on horse-drawn cart. Men at a tobacco farm. A man sows tobacco seeds. Field covered by men. Tractor ploughs field. Men at the farm place tobacco seedlings. Young boys come at farm with shovels. Tractor driven in farm and men cut weeds. Growing transplanted tobacco plants in farm. Men top at field. Young boys ride horses. Men pluck leaves from plants at farm. Horse-drawn carts loaded with tobacco leaves. Leaves cut by men and women. Tobacco leaves tied on wooden sticks stored in a room. Leaves heated in a room. Hanging leaves examined by men after heating. Old man and a woman wrap similar leaves together in grading process. Men in the farms.
A documentary film about Danville, Virginia and the role of tobacco in the lives of its people
Film begins showing a sign on a wooden barn, reading: "Barn Dance Tonight." Country music is heard. View inside the barn shows a fiddler playing, along with musicians playing guitar, banjo, and piano. Couples dance to the music. Closeups of the musicians. Closeups of dancers. Closeups of spectators feet moving to the rythms. A girl eating an ice cream cone while seated watching the dancers. Scenic views of the countryside in Autumn. Farmers loading tobacco from barns into trucks that are seen moving on highways, to market. A sign in a cornfield reads: "Danville, VA. World's Best Tobacco Market." View of downtown Danville, busy because it is auction time. Sign at a newspaper office reads: "The Bee, Founded 1899." Inside the shop, a printer reads a new edition of the paper with headline about "Opening Tobacco Sales." Open stake truck carries load of tobacco into Holland's Auction warehouse. Glimpse of auctioneer taking bids. Farmer takes a "lot" of tobacco in a wheelbarrow for weighing. Buyers gathered around a table, examine tobacco and bid as auctioneer chants. Farmers collect proceeds of their sales from cashier at the auction house. Views of farmers and families in the business district of Danville. Men fill a barbershop and converse, while waiting for haircuts. Next, the film shows folks enjoying themselves at a "County Fair." Tents and amusement rides dominate the fair grounds. Many views of children on Ferris Wheels, Merry-go-rounds, and other rides. Older persons watch aerial performers on a high wire. Various pieces of farm equipment are on display and looked over by farmers. Prize live stock is exhibited by some farmers. People pass a dixplay entitled: "The Farm Family, the Heart of the Nation."Women exmine samples of foods displayed in glass containers. Samples of eggs are examined by judges.Other camples of vegetables and such are judged. Tobacco samples are also judged for quality. A judge places a blue ribbon on the winning tobacco sample. At a large display of competing tobacco lots, the blue ribbon winner discusses his product with other farmers. Scene shifts to growing season, showing tobaccco farmers working in their fields.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson speaks at National Defense Conference at Pentagon in Virginia.
National Defense Conference at Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. Officers seated at a table. U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson arrives at the conference. Officers stand in honor. They all sit. Johnson stands and speaks. An official stands and speaks. Men at a table discuss. General Omar Bradley at conference table. People stand around a table.
Joint Chiefs of Staff James Collins, Louis Denfeld, Omar Bradley and Arthur Vandenberg at the Pentagon in Virginia.
United States military Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. Joint Chiefs of Staff: Major General of the United States Army James Lawton Collins, Admiral of the United States Navy Louis Emil Denfeld, General of the United States Army Omar Nelson Bradley and United States Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg seated at a desk at the Pentagon during a meeting. Admiral Denfeld talks to General Bradley.