Salt of the earth / Independent Productions Corporation ; International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers ; by Michael Wilson ; produced by Paul Jarrico ; directed by Herbert J. Biberman. Hollywood ten / [presented by] the Film Division of the Southern California Chapter, National Council of the Arts, Sciences & Professions.
Salt of the earth is a semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Mexican American zinc miners in New Mexico. When an injunction is issued against the workers, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. Produced independently by blacklisted filmmakers...
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| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles, CA :
Voyager Press,
[1987], ©1987.
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 12 in. |
| Format: | Video DVD |
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Salt of the earth is a semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Mexican American zinc miners in New Mexico. When an injunction is issued against the workers, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. Produced independently by blacklisted filmmakers.
Hollywood ten is a documentary about ten filmmakers who defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947 and were imprisoned for contempt of Congress. |
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| Note: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1954. CLV. "VP1005L." Videorecording. |
| Call Number: | PN1997.S142 1987 Video (12 inch) disc |
| ISBN: | 0931393574 |
| Credits: | Music, Sol Kaplan; editors, Ed Speigel, Joan Laird. |
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Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Wolfe, Marvin Williams, David Sarvis, Juan Chacon. |
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Filmed in New Mexico in 1953. |