Title Salt of the earth [(DVD) videorecording] / Independent Productions Corporation ; International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers ; director, Herbert Biberman ; producer, Paul Jarrico ; writer, Michael Wilson.

Publication Info.	Narberth, Pa. : Alpha Video Distributors, [2004]
	©2004

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1307994~S1

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Description	1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details	DVD format.
Note	Title from disc surface.
	Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
	For specific features see interactive menu.
Cast	Rosaura Revueltas, Juan Chacón, Will Geer.
Credits	Camera, Leonard Stark, Stanley Meredith; music, Sol Kaplan; editors, Ed Speigel, Joan Laird.
Event	Filmed in New Mexico in 1953.
Summary	A semi-documentary drama 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.
Subject	Strikes and lockouts -- Zinc mining -- New Mexico -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
	Miners -- Labor unions -- New Mexico -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
	Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
	DVDs.
Genre	Feature films.
	Historical drama.
Added Author	Biberman, H. J. (Herbert J.)
	Jarrico, Paul.
	Wilson, Michael, 1914-1978.
	Revueltas, Rosaura.
	Chacón, Juan.
	Geer, Will.
	Independent Productions Corporation.
	International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers.
	Alpha Video Distributors.
Standard No.	089218441591
Music No.	ALP 4415D Alpha Video Distributors

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