Film-Work
During the height of the Cold War, the Waterside Workers' Federation Film Unit produced eleven (11) films for several trade unions on political and industrial issues. Independent film-makers worked with them to develop critical dialogue from one generation of concerned film-makers onto another. FILM-WORK looks at sequences from 4 of these films and interviews some of their makers, raising a diversity of issues pertinent to current debates in film, history and politics. The 4 films that are looked at are PENSIONS FOR VETERANS (1953, NSW Branch, WWF), THE HUNGRY MILES (1954, WWF), NOVEMBER VICTORY (1955, WWF), and HEWERS OF COAL (1953, Miners Federation). PENSIONS FOR VETERANS covers the issue of the need for pensions to be given to workers who have worked on the waterfront all their life. THE HUNGRY MILES shows the strength of the workers, the union and its democracy. HEWERS OF COAL is about the coal miners and their struggle to get better working conditions and pensions.
Year: 1981
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Norma Disher, Jerome 'Jock' Levy, Keith Gow
Crew: John Hughes (Producer), John Hughes (Writer), Margot Nash (Director of Photography), Glenys Page (Camera Production Assistant), John Whitteron (Editor), John Whitteron (Sound)
Runtime: 43 minutes
Release: Jan 01, 1981
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Popularity: 0
Country: Australia
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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