THE WAVE

Duration: 68min

Year Published: 1937

Creator: Brandon Films, Inc

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: A film about real people—the fishermen of the state of Vera Cruz on the Gulf of Mexico. The cast is composed of actual fishermen. The story of the workers is given in terms of their lives, their struggles which the film depicts. Part 1: The story itself was generated by the direct contact of the producers with these fishermen. Adhering close to the history and events of their lives, it dramatizes the conditions of their existence and the implications of their pre-settlement. "Tells of fishermen in Mexico who are exploited by their employers. It centers upon one man, whose child dies from lack of money to provide medical care. He leads a strike for better pay, but encounters opposition from the workers—the strikers and those who for one reason or another are against the strike—in the end as the workers appear to have been defeated and the hunter has another narrow escape and victory for their cause." Nat. bd. of rev. mag. "Too long." Collaborator

Complete Record: Dewey number: 917.2 Format/cost: 16-sd-$25 Distributors / rental: IntP rent $25; New York University Film Library $25

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946