Valley town a study of machines and men
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Valley town a study of machines and men is a short film from 1940 released on 16mm. It is held in the IUL Moving Image Archive collection.
Presents a documentary study of an important factor in the problem of unemployment--that of workers displaced by automatic machinery. Tells the story of a typical American steel town in the 1920's and 1930's. The commentator, speaking as the town may...
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Release date | 1940 |
Running time | 0:33:00 |
More Details
- internal id
- 71115
- Summary
- Presents a documentary study of an important factor in the problem of unemployment--that of workers displaced by automatic machinery. Tells the story of a typical American steel town in the 1920's and 1930's. The commentator, speaking as the town mayor, follows the development of the town and its people, whose lives have been bound up in the fortunes of the steel mill.
- Physical Format
- 1 Film (0:33:00)
- 16mm
- IUL Genres
- Documentary
- Educational
- IUL Subject
- Steel industry and trade -- United States
- Iron and steel workers -- United States
- Automation -- Economic aspects -- United States
- Automation -- Economic aspects
- Iron and steel workers
- Steel industry and trade.
- Full Original Title
- Valley town: a study of machines and men