"The history of the North Carolina tobacco
industry as seen through the eyes of a young farm boy in Durham
County in the 1920s. Young Tommy Clemment travels to town with Coy,
a tobacco buyer, and while there meets an old civil war vet, learns
about the giant tobacco industry. Clemment, now an old grown-up,
talks about the changes that have taken place since he was a boy and
the importance of the industry in the U. S. today [in 1980]."
Description taken from the North Carolina Public Library Film
Service Catalog of 16mm films, Supplement,
1978-1983.
Credits
Richard Lonon: Coy Derek Pearson: Tommy Ty Stephens: Eb Clemment Walter Spearman: Civil War Vet Mary Paradeses: Grace Lee White: Jefferson John Booker: Store Keeper Roger Jones: Store Customer Caroline Allured: Tommy's Mother John Dee Holeman: Guitar Player Director: Dick Snavely Writers: Larry Misenheimer, Chancy Kapp, Virgil
Smithers Executive Producer: Virgil
Smithers Made Possible by Grants from The Tobacco History
Corp. Inc. and George Watts Hill, Liggett Group, Inc., Olin
Corporation Charitable Trust, Philip Morris, Incorporated, R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company, The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Brown
& Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Durham Coca-Cola Bottling
Company, The Northgate mall, Hauni Richmond, Inc., The Herald-Sun
Papers Coy's Car Courtesy of Daniel Boone
Co. Special Thanks: Patterson's Mill Store, Avis
Stallings, Staff of Duke Homestead Producer: N.C. Dept. of Cultural
Resources Copyright: 1980, All Rights
Reserved
Digitization Notes
This item was digitized as part of the Digital
Public Library of America Hubs Pilot, a project supported by the
Digital Public Library of America with funding provided by the John
S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
