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.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: ALP 4415D | Alpha Video DistributorsPublication details: Narberth, Pa. : Alpha Video Distributors, c2004.Description: 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 176
LOC classification:
  • CM DVD 00723
Production credits:
  • Camera, Leonard Stark, Stanley Meredith; music, Sol Kaplan; editors, Ed Speigel, Joan Laird.
Cast: Rosaura Revueltas, Juan Chacâon, Will Geer.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.
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DVD DVD Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Colección Multimedia (Humanidades 4to. Piso) CM DVD 00723 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000039220

Title from disc surface.

Rosaura Revueltas, Juan Chacâon, Will Geer.

Camera, Leonard Stark, Stanley Meredith; music, Sol Kaplan; editors, Ed Speigel, Joan Laird.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.

Filmed in New Mexico in 1953.

DVD format.

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.

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