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Salt of the earth / Independent Productions Corporation and the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers present ; directed by Herbert Biberman ; writer, Michael Wilson.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: English, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: Spanish Publisher: [United States] : Independent Productions Corporation, [1954]Distributor: [Los Angeles, CA] : [Cinetel Films]Copyright date: ©1953Description: 1 online resource (2 video files (92 min. each)) : sound, black and whiteContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Other title:
  • Spanish title: Sal de la tierra
Uniform titles:
  • Salt of the earth (Motion picture : 1954)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Production credits:
  • Cinematographers, Stanley Meredith, Leonard Stark; editors, Ed Speigel, Joan Laird; music, Sol Kaplan.
  • Winner of 2 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Awards in 1954: Best Actress (Rosa Revueltas), and, a Crystal Globe (Herbert J. Biberman)
  • Winner of the National Film Registry in 1992
Cast: Rosaura Revueltas, Juan Chacón, Will Geer, David Wolfe, David Sarvis, Mervin Williams.Summary: A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions. When an injunction is issued against the workers from picketing, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. They finally overcome the forces of the mine owner and the law that backs them up.
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Rosaura Revueltas, Juan Chacón, Will Geer, David Wolfe, David Sarvis, Mervin Williams.

Cinematographers, Stanley Meredith, Leonard Stark; editors, Ed Speigel, Joan Laird; music, Sol Kaplan.

Filmed near Silver City, New Mexico in 1953.

A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions. When an injunction is issued against the workers from picketing, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. They finally overcome the forces of the mine owner and the law that backs them up.

In English or Spanish; with optional Spanish subtitles.

Winner of 2 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Awards in 1954: Best Actress (Rosa Revueltas), and, a Crystal Globe (Herbert J. Biberman)

Winner of the National Film Registry in 1992

Online resource; title from opening/closing credits (Digitalia Film Library, viewed August 7, 2015)

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