Director: Bill Adelman
Synopsis: Shows the great meat strike of 1904 in Chicago
Category Archives: Genre
Painting Red Square (2009)
5m; Canada
Director: Max Fraser
Available online
7000 km from Moscow, there’s another Red Square….Witness the struggle of the labour-left in Whitehorse to find a friendly watering hole where they can share a glass with their comrades and debate which shade of red is best. Paint, popcorn and a little beer get spilled along the way.
DVD with extra chapters: 20 mins
Featuring: Del Young and the gang at Red Square.
GENRE: Humour
Tags: Beer, Whitehorse, High Country Inn, TGIF, Paint, Red Square, Labour, Left, Canadian North
Palace Cars and Paradise: The Pullman Model Town (1983)
28m; U.S.
Synopsis: Concerned with the model town that George Pullman conceived and named after himself in the 1880s to house the largely white task force of skilled and unskilled mechanics who labored in the company’s massive car construction and repair shop.
Contact: Available from the Illinois Labor History Society 28 E. Jackson Boulevard, Chicago Ill, 60604.
Paper Dolls (2006)
80m; Israel
Director: Tomer Heymann
Synopsis: “Paper Dolls” is a documentary film which explores changing patterns of global immigration and expanding notions of family through the prism of a community of Filipino transvestites who live illegally in Israel. Cast out by their families because of their sexual and gender preferences, these people work 6 days a week as live-in, 24 hour a day care givers (and in many cases as surrogate children) for elderly orthodox Jewish men, in order to earn money to send to their families in the Philippines that had rejected them. On their one free night per week, they pursue their own personal dreams as drag performers in the group they call “The Paper Dolls” in the relative freedom of cosmopolitan Tel Aviv. Despite having to deal with often harsh working conditions, threats by street criminals, fear of terrorist bombings and the constant peril of deportation, The Paper Dolls demonstrate a rare generosity of spirit, humanity and lust for life. Award winning filmmaker Tomer Heymann enters this unusual world and by coming to know and love these subjects unearths joy, sorrow and humanity which change his life forever
Contact: http://www.heymann-films.com/en/Films/Details/Paper-Dolls#/Images/Films/paper_dolls_1.jpg
The Passengers (El Ghorda) [1971]
83m; France/Algeria
Director: Annie Tresgot
Synopsis: Cinema verite portrayal of Algerian emigrant labor problems, racism, and alienation in Paris.
Patriots Act… Peace Press: The People’s Printing Collective
95m; U.S.
Director: Joseph Daccurso
Contact: Jerry Palmer, Bob Zaugh and Irene Wolt
Synopsis (IMDB): “Dissent is not disloyalty, but rather an expression of First Amendment rights, and art can be both commercial and a weapon. What Woodstock was a film generation, Peace Press was to graphic arts. The times have changed but not the causes for which PatriotS Act.”
Pay Day (1922)
28m; U.S.
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Phyllis Allen and Mack Swain
Synopsis (IMDB): Charlie is an expert bricklayer. He has lots of fun and work and enjoys himself greatly while at the saloon. As he leaves work his wife takes the pay he has hidden in his hat. But he steals her purse so he can go out for the evening. He has a terrible time getting home on a very rainy night. When he does so he finds his wife waiting for him with a rolling pin.
The Peasants of the Second Fortress (Sanrizuka: Dainitoride no hitobito) [1971]
143m; Japan
Director: Shinsuke Ogawa
Synopsis: Peasants, students, workers, and the filmmakers themselves join in a five year struggle to resist giving up land for a new international airport near Toyko.
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