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The Killing floor / Public Forum Productions, Limited, in association with KERA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth ; American Playhouse ; producer, George Manasse ; directed by Bill Duke ; story by Elsa Rassbach ; adaptation by Ron Milner ; screenplay by Leslie Lee.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- series
- [series]
- Standardized Title:
- American playhouse (Television program). 1984, Killing floor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Riots--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century--Drama.
- Riots.
- African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--History--1877-1964--Drama.
- African Americans.
- Race discrimination.
- Racism.
- Packing-house workers--Labor unions.
- Working class.
- History.
- Stockyards.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations--Drama.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Stockyards--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century--Drama.
- Working class--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century--Drama.
- Packing-house workers--Labor unions--Illinois--Chicago--Drama.
- Packing-house workers.
- Racism--Illinois--Chicago--Drama.
- Race discrimination--Illinois--Chicago--Drama.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (118 min.)) : sound, color, black and white.
- Place of Publication:
- [Dallas, Tex.] : KERA ; [New York, NY] : Public Forum Productions, [1984]
- System Details:
- digital !2 rdatr
- video file !2 rdaft
- Summary:
- This story tells of events that led to the Chicago race riots of 1919. A young black sharecropper leaves the South during World War I and becomes a laborer in the Chicago stockyards, and, along with other little-known stockyard workers of different ethnic backgrounds, he attempts to form an interracial industrial union in the face of growing conflict.
- Participant:
- Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard, Clarence Felder, Moses Gunn.
- Credits:
- Art director, Maher Ahmad ; music composer/director, Elizabeth Swados ; director of photography, William Birch ; executive producer, Elsa Rassbach.
- Notes:
- Premiered on national prime time PBS American Playhouse, April 10, 1984.
- "A presentation of the Made in U.S.A. series."
- Based on an original story by Elsa Rassbach.
- Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival.
- Description based on videocassette version record. Premiere information from film's website, viewed April 6, 2020 (http://www.thekillingfloor-thefilm.com/index.html).
- OCLC:
- 1148476079
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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