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Dollar a day, ten cents a dance : a historic portrait of Filipino farmworkers in America
Title
Dollar a day, ten cents a dance : a historic portrait of Filipino farmworkers in America / Impact Productions ; producer/director, Geoffrey Dunn & Mark Schwartz ; writer, Geoffrey Dunn.
Published
San Francisco, CA : Distributed by Center for Asian American Media, [2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (29 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally released in 1984.
Music, Jose Maliga [and others] ; photographer/editor, Mark Schwartz.
Summary
Presents a portrait of Filipino farm laborers who came to the United States in the 1920s and 1930s expecting a more prosperous life-style. Voicing their recollections these now elderly men reveal the poverty and social and cultural difficulties they experienced.
Variant and related titles
Historic portrait of Filipino farmworkers in America
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 25, 2018
Credits
Music, Jose Maliga [and others] ; photographer/editor, Mark Schwartz.
Performers
Narrated by T.C. Golez; Celedonio La Questa, Jacinto Sequig.
System details note
DVD.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
Impact Productions.
Center for Asian American Media.
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