Nosotros Venceremos (1971, sound)

Description: Still photography and audio recordings documenting the Delano grape strike and farmworkers movement in the Central Valley of California, featuring black and white photographs by Jon Lewis and speeches by Cesar Chavez.

synopsis by Jon Lewis:
"song: NOSOTROS VENCEREMOS
We Shall Overcome fills the farmworkers meeting hall, as images evoke the land and the life of those on that land: individuals alone, but with a strength and an enduring.

PLAN OF DELANO excerpt:
We are sons of the Mexican Revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice...are words emanating from the spirit of the people, as the camera pans over a sea of faces -- immobile, yet poised.

MAN ON PICKET LINE
Dignidad is an outcry for dignity, as one man stands.

song: SOLIDARIDAD PA' SIEMPRE
And others stand beside him, taking up the bull horn and picket sign.

song: DE COLORES
And they march in pilgrimage to Sacramento, under the banner of their Virgin of Guadalupe. A handful of women carry the song at first, fragile as trucks zoom past; but as more people join the march, the song emerges resonant in a bursting hall as the capitol's dome comes into view.

PLAN OF DELANO excerpt:
All men are brothers, sons of the same God...We must use the only strength that we have, the force of our numbers...United we shall stand...

HUELGA CHANT
In a staccato of voices and stamping feet, the march is recapitulated to triumph with 10,000 at the capitol.

INTRODUCTION OF CESAR CHAVEZ AT SACRAMENTO
The words come slowly, he is one of us...also born below, as a series of still life's explore the outskirts of all valley towns.

CESAR ANNOUNCES THE FIRST CONTRACT
For so historic an occasion after 7 months of the strike, they are simple, soft-spoken words, almost matter-of-fact. Yet, the hand trembles holding that slip of paper, and the voice falters at points, the joy and the pride are there beneath the words, with the knowledge that it has but begun.

song: HUELGA GENERAL
To the jubilant re-telling of the start of the strike, we see the cascading faces of the men, women, and children who were there and defended their farmworkers union."

can notes: "Nosotros Venceremos V214"

leader notes: "property of: Jon Lewis / title: Nosotros Venceremos" and "return to Filmwright"

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Subjects: 1960s, 1970s, Agriculture, Labor unions, Activism, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic history and culture

Tags: farmworkers; agricultural workers; migrant workers; labor activism; grape vines; vineyards; workers harvesting grapes; labor organizing; rallies; picket lines; workers striking; strikes; black and white photography; bullhorns; megaphones; protest songs; activists carrying NFWA banners; National Farm Workers Association; activists carrying Mexican flag; De Colores song; huelga; crowds of protesters; Juarez Zapata Chavez sign painted on wood; Cesar Chavez; United Farm Workers; Delano grape strike; migration

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Jon Lewis

Credits: hecho por Jon Lewis
de sus fotografías

y de sonidos cortesía
Eliezer Risco-Lozada

--

made by Jon Lewis
from his photographs

and from songs courtesy of
Eliezer Risco-Lozada

Distributor:

Contributor: Freedom Archives

Source Collection: Freedom Archives Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1965-1970

Release Date: 1971

Geographical Location: USA; California; Central Valley, California; Delano, California

Genre/Form: activist, documentary

Language: spa

Rights: " 'Nosotros Venceremos' (c) por Jon Lewis"

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print

Color: b&w

Color Process: Eastman 22

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: optical, variable area

Edge Code: circle plus

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 405