38 Familias (sound)

Description: Film about the 38 families at La Posada labor camp for farm workers in Salinas, California who went on strike in demand of improved housing conditions. They eventually move into Camp McCallum, which served as a former Japanese incarceration camp during World War II, while they await permanent housing.

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Subjects: 1970s, Agriculture, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, Activism, Housing, Strikes, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic history and culture , Labor unions, Food

Tags: shot on video; protest songs; Chicano working families; farming; agricultural workers picking strawberries; La Posada labor camp; Pick 'N Pack DuPont; Salinas Strawberries; mistreatment of workers; Gilroy Migrant Housing Center; United Farm Workers; huelgas; campesinos; Viva Zapata graffiti; police brutality; arrests; Cesar Chavez; farmworkers' movement; housing; labor conditions; mutual aid; Safeway; Mexican people; Mexican American people; Chicana/o/x/e people; Camp McCallum; radicalism of the 1960s and 1970s; on-camera interviews with farmworkers; female narrator; La Raza; Spanish language interviews; injustice; female activists; children; Mexicanos

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Newsreel, San Francisco Newsreel

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Roger Beebe

Source Collection: Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1972

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; California; Salinas, California; Gilroy, California

Genre/Form: documentary, activist

Language: spa,eng

Rights: Notice on film states: "[copyright] 1972 Cine-News Inc."

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print, kinescope

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: optical, variable area

Edge Code: plus triangle

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 800