- Description:
- DVD - Region 1. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
color and b/w.
fullscreen. sound.
- Notes:
- Special features include: booklet with film notes and background on Kartemquin Films.
Titles
+ HSA Strike ‘75
- Director:
- Hoffman, Judy
- Production Co:
- Kartemquin Films
- Running Time:
- Short. 20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1975
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- A union of interns and residents at Chicago's only public hospital are forced to strike for better patient care. This film documents their eighteen-day strike at Cook County Hospital.
+ U.E. Wells
- Director:
- Blumenthal, Jerry; Quinn, Gordon
- Production Co:
- Kartemquin Films
- Running Time:
- Short. 15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1975
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- UE/Wells follows an organizing drive by the United Electrical Workers Union at the Wells Foundry in Chicago. The multi-ethnic work force of Polish, Arab, Jewish, Hispanic and African American men and women unite together despite the company's efforts to use race as a wedge to divide them.
+ What’s Happening at Local 70?
- Director:
- Hoffman, Judy
- Production Co:
- Kartemquin Films
- Running Time:
- Short. 20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1975
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Striking workers in one Chicago unemployment compensation office talk about working conditions that led to a walkout in July, 1975. Workers and claimants suggest possible solutions to the problems of understaffing and compulsory overtime. This tape was used to organize other offices to support the strike.
