People of the Cumberland (1937)
- Directed by
- Sidney Meyers, Jay Leyda, Elia Kazan
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 21 min
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This 1937 short film shows the lives of workers in the Cumberland Mountains. It supports the labor union movement by mixing documentary footage with dramatic reenactments.
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What happens
People of the Cumberland is a 1937 short film directed by Sidney Meyers and Jay Leyda and produced by Frontier Films. The film is designed to support the U.S. labor union movement and it mixes non-fiction filmmaking and dramatic re-enactions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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