So how did a young woman from New York’s Westchester County capture the hidden hollows of Harlan County? Presented here is one outtake, edited slightly for length, from the HARLAN COUNTY USA archives at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.Producer-director Barbara Kopple and her crew shot hundreds of hours of film for HARLAN COUNTY USA. The following panel discussion features producer-director Barbara Kopple, cinematographer Hart Perry, editor Nancy Baker, musician Hazel Dickens, and film critic Roger Ebert. Helpful. Which side were they on? "Kopple and her crew spent years with the families depicted in the film, documenting the dire straits they found themselves in while striking for safer working conditions, fair labor practices, and decent wages; following them to picket in front of the stock exchange in New York, filming interviews with people affected by The most significant point of disagreement in the Harlan County strike was the company's insistence on including a Rather than using narration to tell the story, Kopple chose to let the words and actions of these people speak for themselves. Meanwhile, the striking miners, many of whom are living in squalid conditions without utilities like running water, received a 4% pay increase despite an estimated 7% Almost a full year into the strike a striking miner named Lawrence Jones is fatally shot during a scuffle.
In this 2006 in...Director John Sayles’s films include RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS 7, LONE STAR, and MATEWAN, which chronicles the struggles of West Virginia coal miners in the 1920s as they try to unionize. "Girl", she was told, "you gotta tell people here what you're doin'. 3 people found this helpful. Several times she is seen publicly chastising those she feels have been absent from the picket lines. New York, New York: Criterion Collection, 2006. Kopple felt it was important to continue filming (or pretend to, when they were out of film) because their presence and support actually kept the violence down. "Film critic Dennis Schwartz liked the documentary, yet believed it provided only one point of view. Read more.
Barbara Kopple’s … For example, when the strike breakers and others hired by the company show up early in the film—the strikers call them "gun thugs"—the company people try to keep their guns hidden from the camera.
In one scene, Scott pulls a pistol from her bra. Helpful. A Brief History of Harlan County, USA. Kopple also relays statistics about the companies and the workers to support the strikers, such as the fact that Duke Power Company's profits increased 170 percent in a single year. English; Español; August 14, 2019 / Cal Winslow Enlarge or shrink text login or register to comment Post a Comment.
If the film crew hadn't been sympathetic to our cause, we would've lost.
Workers at the Brookside Mine in Harlan County, Kentucky went on strike in June 1972 after the Eastover Coal Company, and its owner the Duke Power conglomerate, refused to recognize the miners' union … Associate director Anne Lewis compares Scott to When the film was re-released, critic Roger Ebert praised the film, writing "The film retains all of its power, in the story of a miners' strike in Kentucky where the company employed armed goons to escort scabs into the mines, and the most effective picketers were the miners' wives -- articulate, indomitable, courageous. Presented here is one outtake, edited slightly for length, from the HARLAN COUNTY USA archives at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.Producer-director Barbara Kopple and her crew shot hundreds of hours of film for HARLAN COUNTY USA. … Read more.