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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 overcom...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Revueltas, Rosaura (Actor)
Format: Electronic Video
Language:Inglés
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Published: [United States] : Independent Productions Corporation, [1954]
Subjects:
Miners > Labor unions > New Mexico > Drama.
Strikes and lockouts > Zinc mining > New Mexico > Drama.
Mexican Americans > New Mexico > Drama.
Mexican Americans.
Miners > Labor unions.
Strikes and lockouts > Zinc mining.
New Mexico.
Streaming video.
Documentaries and Factual Films
Webcast
Documentary films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Historical films.
Internet videos.
Social problem films.
Films sociaux.
Films historiques.
Documentaires.
Vidéos sur Internet.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (2 video files (92 min. each)) : sound, black and white
Awards:Winner of 2 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Awards in 1954: Best Actress (Rosa Revueltas), and, a Crystal Globe (Herbert J. Biberman)
Winner of the National Film Registry in 1992
Production Credits:Cinematographers, Stanley Meredith, Leonard Stark; editors, Ed Speigel, Joan Laird; music, Sol Kaplan.

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