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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 [videorecording] : a historic portrait of Filipino farmworkers in America / executive producer, George Ow, Jr. ; produced by Geoffrey Dunn & Mark Schwartz ; photographed, directed & edited by Mark Schwartz ; directed & written by Geoffrey Dunn.
Published
San Francisco, CA : NAATA/CrossCurrent Media, c1995, c1984.
Physical Description
1 videocassette (29 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Notes
VHS format.
Originally released in 1984.
Narrated by T.C. Golez; music, Pinoy sa America by Jose Maliga, Linda Arnold, Bob Reid, Bavanihan Dance Company.
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. Because few Filipino women settled in the United States the social life of the men centered around common law marriages, athletic clubs, illegal cock fights and dance halls.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Credits
Narrated by T.C. Golez; music, Pinoy sa America by Jose Maliga, Linda Arnold, Bob Reid, Bavanihan Dance Company.
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