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Native Land
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Wikipedia article
'Native Land' is a 1942 documentary film directed by Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand.Grant, Barry Keith and Jim Hillier. 'BFI Screen Guides: 100 Documentary Films', Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. pp. 147148.
A combination of a documentary format and staged reenactments, the film depicted the struggle of trade unions against union-busting corporations, their spies and contractors. It was based on the 1938 report of the La Follette Committee's investigation of the repression of labor organizing.
Famous African-American singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson participated as an off-screen narrator and vocalist.
Cast
* Paul Robeson as Narrator and vocalist (voice)
* Fred Johnson as Fred Hill, a farmer
* Mary George as Hill's wife
* John Rennick as Hill's son
* Amelia Romano as Window scrubber
* Houseley Stevenson as White sharecropper
* Louis Grant as Black sharecropper
* James Hanney as Mack, Union president
* Howard Da Silva as Jim, an informer
* Art Smith as Harry Carlyle
* John Marley as Thug with crowbar
Restoration and re-release
A restored version of the film was released in 2011. The film was restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, funded by the Packard Humanities Institute.
The new print was made from the original 35mm nitrate picture negative, a 35mm safety duplicate negative, and a 35mm safety up-and-down track negative.
The restoration premiered at the UCLA Festival of Preservation on March 26, 2011 and was screened at other North American cities in 2011 including Vancouver.
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