Research Catalog

Title

Dollar a day, ten cents a dance [videorecording] : a historic portrait of Filipino farmworkers in America / presented by George Ow, Jr. ; produced and directed by Geoffrey Dunn and Mark Schwartz.

Publication

[California?] : Cross Current Media ; San Francisco, CA : NAATA [distributor], c1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Golez, T. C.
• Schwartz, Mark.
• Dunn, Geoffrey.
• Ow, George.
• CrossCurrent Media.

Description

1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

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.

Subjects

• Video recordings
• Farm life > United States > History > 20th century
• Filipino Americans > Social life and customs
• Agricultural laborers, Foreign > United States
• Short films

Note

• Issued also by Cinema Guild.

Credits (note)

• Editor, photographer, Mark Schwartz ; writer, Geoffrey Dunn.

System Details (note)

• VHS.

LCCN

85702722

Title

Dollar a day, ten cents a dance [videorecording] : a historic portrait of Filipino farmworkers in America / presented by George Ow, Jr. ; produced and directed by Geoffrey Dunn and Mark Schwartz.

Imprint

[California?] : Cross Current Media ; San Francisco, CA : NAATA [distributor], c1984.

Credits

Editor, photographer, Mark Schwartz ; writer, Geoffrey Dunn.

Performer

T. C. Golez.

System Details

VHS.

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Added Author

Golez, T. C.

Schwartz, Mark.

Dunn, Geoffrey.

Ow, George.

CrossCurrent Media.

Branch Call Number

VC 305.8992 D