Quebec's golden secret: 30 minutes of tobacco farming that'll oddly hypnotize you.
History of yellow tobacco cultivation in the regions of Joliette, Berthier and Trois-Rivières. The documentary describes the care and work required for this crop and pays tribute to the producers whose efforts have made it possible to introduce and maintain this highly specialized industrial crop in Quebec.
Cinematography
Lush mid-century rural Quebec captured in gorgeous grainy B&W.
Direction
Proulx finds unexpected drama in drying barns.
Director
Maurice Proulx
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yellow tobacco was Quebec's 'white gold'—a luxury crop that let small farms survive industrialization's crush.
Maurice Proulx shot this between his more famous agricultural films; the Joliette farmers had never seen a movie camera before.
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