Title Salt of the earth / 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, [1954]
	©2004

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Farmington, Main Library - Lobby	CLA DVD SAL	Check Shelf
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Reserve Material	POLS 310 LEADERSHIP, ACTIVISM & SOCIAL JUSTICE	In-Library Use Only

Description	1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details	DVD.
Note	Title from disc surface.
Cast	Rosaura Revueltas, Juan Chacón, Will Geer.
Credits	Camera, Leonard Stark, Stanley Meredith; music, Sol Kaplan; editors, Ed Speigel, Joan Laird.
Note	Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
Event	Filmed in New Mexico in 1953.
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.
Note	GMD: videorecording.
Subject	Strikes and lockouts -- Zinc mining -- New Mexico -- Drama.
	Miners -- Labor unions -- New Mexico -- Drama.
	Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- Drama.
	Feature films.
	Historical films.
	Populist films.
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.
ISBN	$6.99
Standard No.	089218441591
Music No.	ALP 4415D Alpha Video Distributors

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