Organize (sound)

Description: Film documenting the culture and rising protest movement against coal mining companies. Filmed in and around Pikeville, Kentucky and Appalachia.

"Shows an organizing project in Appalachia that is helping the people fight the destructive effects of strip mining." (Index to 16mm Educational Films)

Note on can:

"OCTOBER FILMS

610 South Federal

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60605

SCEF Appalachian Film"

Note on leader:

"CBS SOUTHERN CONFERENCE

SOUTHERN CONFERENCE EDUCATIONAL FUND - APPALACHIA"

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.

Subjects: 1960s, Vocations, Industry, Strikes, Poverty, Activism, Labor, Labor unions, Extractive industries

Tags: coal towns; coal; front porches; mines; mining; railroads; trains; microphones; Robert Kennedy; motorcycles; working class; Marxism; activism; talking head interviews; miners; workers; union struggles; colonialism; African American workers; labor movement; music; protest music; labor organizing; repercussions for labor organizing; demands; "take it easy but take it" song

Film Sponsor:

Creator:

Credits: Songs by Mike Kline

Narrative by Joe Mulloy

Contributors Clifford Atchley, Carl & Anne Braden, The Southern Conference Educational Fund, Tom Bethell, Guy Carawan, Kit Clark, Lauren Emerson, Edith Easterling, Click Johnson, Doug Kiker, Polly Kline, Don Lenzer, Al McSurley, Margaret McSurley, John McDonald, Karen Mulloy, Dick Pearce, Bill Wells, Jack Willis, John Tiller, And all the unsung heros [sic] of Appalachia.

Distributor: October Films

Contributor: Roger Beebe

Source Collection: Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar Collection

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

Production Date: circa late 1960s-early 1970s

Release Date:

Geographical Location: Appalachia; Pikeville, Kentucky; USA; Kentucky

Genre/Form: television broadcast, documentary

Language: eng

Rights: No copyright notice seen on film.

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print, kinescope

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: optical

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 535