As Texas blues singer Sonny Rhodes performs a song about a lover who died from smoking cigarettes, the film shows a sculpture made entirely of butts from the cigarettes which eventually killed the sculptor, Louis Bunce.
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Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
017221
Language
English
Subject categories
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cancer
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cigarette habit
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cigarette smokers
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Health education
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Lungs - Cancer
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Smoking
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Tobacco habit
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)