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Salt of the earth / Independent Productions Corporation ; International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers present ; directed by Herbert Biberman ; produced by Paul Jarrico ; written by Michael Wilson.
LIBRA DVD PN1997 . S358 1999 disc + insert
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Standardized Title:
- Salt of the earth (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.
- United States.
- Strikes and lockouts--Zinc mining--New Mexico--Drama.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Miners--Labor unions--New Mexico--Drama.
- Miners.
- Mexican Americans--New Mexico--Drama.
- Mexican Americans.
- Blacklisting of entertainers--Drama.
- Blacklisting of entertainers.
- Miners--Labor unions.
- Strikes and lockouts--Zinc mining.
- New Mexico.
- Genre:
- Motion pictures, American.
- Social problem films
- Populist films
- Historical films
- Fiction films
- Feature films
- Drama
- Feature films.
- Historical films.
- Populist films.
- Social problem films.
- Fiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + inserted (folded leaf : illustrations ; 18 cm)
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Pioneer : Organa : Pop, ©1999.
- Language Note:
- English dialogue.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Special features: Filmmakers (the blacklisted filmmakers of Salt of the Earth); Cast (the stars and their stories); Theatrical trailer; Production timeline (a chronicle of the troubled shoot, production and distribution of the only U.S. blacklisted film); Editing notes (notes from producer Paul Jarrico to editor Ed Spiegel); Shooting schedule; "The Hollywood ten" (about blacklisted writers and directors who defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947 and were imprisoned for contempt of Congress); The Hollywood blacklist (the "blacklist" barred some 214 filmmakers and craftsmen from working in the motion picture industry); The Empire Zinc strike (Salt of the Earth is based on the controversial walkout at the Empire Zinc Company in New Mexico); Photo gallery; DVD credits.
- Participant:
- Rosaura Revueltas, Juan Chacón, Will Geer, David Wolfe, David Sarvis, Mervin Williams.
- Credits:
- Camera, Leonard Stark, Stanley Meredith; music, Sol Kaplan; editors, Ed Speigel, Joan Laird.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.
- Filmed in New Mexico in 1953.
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Best Actress, Rosaura Revueltas, and Crystal Globe Award for Best Picture, 1954; Académie du Cinéma de Paris, International Grand Prize, 1955.
- National Film Registry, 1992.
- Contains:
- Hollywood ten.
- ISBN:
- 9780970703972
- 097070397X
- OCLC:
- 42084031
- Publisher Number:
- 013023002593
- 9780970703972
- DVD1005 Pioneer
- Online:
- Credits from Internet Movie Database
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