| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time |
011136 |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Collective Eye Films in 2016. |
| Summary |
A towboat drifts down the Mississippi River, due for the port of New Orleans. The water, the banks, the bright lights of a port ahead, the lure of a coming paycheck and a home-cooked meal: This is the world of Barge. On board, dry land’s misfits find purpose and direction twenty-eight days at a time as the steady hands of an industrial ecosystem teeming with line boats, fleet boats, and a few million tons of cargo moved each year. Amongst the crew are a green deckhand following his father and grandmother into their family business, a former convict working his way upward in hope of being First Mate, a thirty-eight-year-old. veteran engineer in no hurry to retire, all on the ancient waterway pulling a double shift as the backbone of the national economy. As long as the boat’s moving, they’re making money. Barge is an intimate portrait of the machinery of American ambitions. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Race relations
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Sociology
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| Genre |
Ethnicity |
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Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Powell, Ben, filmmaker
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Collective Eye Films (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
1427380 Kanopy |
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