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Salt of the earth

DVD

2004

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Salt of the earth [videorecording] / Independent Productions Corporation ; International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers ; director, Herbert Biberman ; producer, Paul Jarrico ; writer, Michael Wilson.
Publisher, Date:	Narberth, Pa. : Alpha Video Distributors, c2004.
Description:	1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:	A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions. When an injunction is issued against the workers from picketing, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. They finally overcome the forces of the mine owner and the law that backs them up.
Subjects:	Strikes and lockouts -- Zinc mining -- New Mexico -- Drama. Miners -- New Mexico -- Labor unions -- Drama. Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- Drama. Feature films. Historical films. Populist films.
Other Author:	Biberman, H. J. (Herbert J.) Jarrico, Paul. Wilson, Michael, 1914-1978. Revueltas, Rosaura. Chacón, Juan. Geer, Will. Independent Productions Corporation. International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers. Alpha Video Distributors.
Notes:	Title from disc surface. Originally released as a motion picture in 1954. Camera, Leonard Stark, Stanley Meredith; music, Sol Kaplan; editors, Ed Speigel, Joan Laird. Rosaura Revueltas, Juan Chacón, Will Geer. Filmed in New Mexico in 1953. DVD format.
Publisher Number:	ALP 4415D
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	194869
# Local items in:	1
# System items in:	1
Call Number:	DVD MOVIE Salt of
Medium:	[videorecording]

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