RHODESIA'S PRECIOUS WEED
This film is held by the BFI (ID: 59553).
Synopsis
John Hooper weighs up the tobacco industry in Rhodesia - interviews with farmers and black workers about the working relationship; the sorting and grading of the product; auctions in Salisbury; interviews with the auction floor manager and Tobacco Trade Congress delegates; an exhibition about "Blue Mould", a European tobacco disease: the work of the Rhodesian Tobacco Research Board; tax statistics; demand and supply; the head of the Tobacco Export Promotion Council describes the reponsibilities of the Council and is asked about smoking and lung cancer; prospects.
Titles
- RHODESIA'S PRECIOUS WEED
- Series Title:
- BALANCE
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1963
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 16mm Film
- Colour:
- Black/White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Footage:
- 950 ft
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- Rhodesia
- Director
- LAWS, Geoff
- Sound Recording
- BARTLETT, Terry
- Director of Photography
- PEEL, Geoff
- Director of Photography
- SHEARS, Ron
- Editor
- LAWS, Geoff
- presenter
- HOOPER, John