NET JOURNAL: HUELGA! {STRIKE!} (TV)
Summary
One in this weekly documentary series. This program is devoted to the award-winning documentary "Huelga" -- the Spanish word for "strike." This film concerns the landmark strike of grape pickers in the San Joaquin Valley in California, and their efforts under the leadership of Cesar Chavez to unionize. By documenting the strike -- the longest and most important in agricultural history -- a dramatic portrait emerges of a labor movement and the people it involves. Interviews are conducted alternately with the growers and the workers, and footage includes shots of the picket lines, the rundown workers' camps, a Christmas Eve rally for the strikers and their supporters, and the 300-mile solidarity march on the Capitol in Sacramento. At the time the documentary was completed, the strike had lasted for three years.
Details
- NETWORK: NET National Educational Television / PBS forerunner
- DATE: February 12, 1968 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:57:32
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T88:0519
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Strikes and lockouts; Unions
- SERIES RUN: WNET (New York, NY) - TV series, 1966-1970
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Robert McBride … Executive Producer
- Mark Harris … Producer, Writer
- Skeets McGrew … Director
- Augustin Lira … Music by
- El Teatro Campesino … Music by
- Paul Herlinger … Narrator
- Cesar Chavez