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The killing floor

DVD

2019

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Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	The killing floor / an Elsa Rassbach production ; adaptation by Ron Milner ; screenplay by Leslie Lee ; producer, George Manasse ; directed by Bill Duke ; a Public Forum Productions, Ltd. production in association with KERA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth.
Publisher, Date:	[New York] : Film Movement, [2019?]
Description:	1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. digital optical video file DVD video
Summary:	Tells the story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. Traces the racial and class conflicts in the slaughterhouses and management's efforts to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
Series:	Film Movement classics Film Movement classics.
Subjects:	Packing-houses -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama. Riots -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama. Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- Drama. Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 1875-
Genre:	Drama. Made-for-TV movies.
Other Author:	Rassbach, Elsa, television producer, author. Milner, Ron. Lee, Leslie, 1930-2014, screenwriter. Manasse, George, television producer. Duke, Bill, 1943- television director. Leake, Damien, actor. Woodard, Alfre, 1953- actor. Felder, Clarence, actor. Gunn, Moses, 1929-1993, actor. Birch, William, 1918- director of photography. Swados, Elizabeth, composer (expression) Public Forum Productions, Ltd., production company. KERA Dallas/Ft. Worth (Television station), production company. Film Movement (Firm), publisher.
Notes:	Based on an original story by Elsa Rassbach. Originally released as a motion picture in 1984. "The killing floor (1985) has been preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive as part of the Sundance Institute Collection"--Opening credits. Director of photography, William Birch ; editor, John Carter ; music, Elizabeth Swados. Damien Leake, Alfre Woodward, Clarence Felder, Moses Gunn. DVD-R.
ISBN:	9786318417587 : DVD 6318417583 : DVD
Other Number:	1136721837
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	873303
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Call Number:	DVD TV Killing

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