Oil Strike (sound)

Description: Newsreel #25
Alternate titles: Union a.k.a. Oil Strike a.k.a. Richmond Oil Strike

"January '69, oil workers in Northern California struck, and for the first time, students at San Francisco State and University of California were asked to join the union in the struggle. This action added a new dimension to the Movement in California. Made by San Francisco Newsreel." twn.org/catalog/pages/responsive/cpage.aspx?rec=1459&card=price (accessed 2024-06-20)

Leader:
"Oil Strike / Print 3"

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Subjects: 1960s, Extractive industries, Strikes, Labor unions, Labor, Activism

Tags: oil refineries; refinery workers; picket lines; protesters; women protesting; picket signs; activism of the 1960s and 1970s; Shell Oil; Standard Oil; Chevron; Rockefellers; death; funerals; Dick Jones; labor activism; working class people; company goons; student activism; labor movement; police brutality; Richmond Oil Strike; San Francisco Newsreel; San Francisco State; University of California; narration; folk music; Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union; OCAW; gasoline pump displays incrementing; SDS; Students for a Democratic Society; labor solidarity

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Creator: Newsreel, San Francisco Newsreel

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Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

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

Production Date: 1969

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Geographical Location: USA; California; Richmond, California; Martinez, California

Genre/Form: activist, documentary

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: print

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: optical, variable area

Edge Code: plus

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 579