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The Wobblies
Premiere of a newly restored print to benefit the WFPF.

The award-winning film The Wobblies by Deborah Shaffer and Stewart Bird (U.S., 1979; 89m) first premiered at the New York Film Festival in 1979. Its restoration and preservation was funded by the Women's Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) of New York Women in Film & Television.

From their founding 100 years ago to WWI, members of the Industrial Workers of the World, nicknamed the Wobblies, traveled from coast to coast with "Solidarity" as their slogan and the goal of organizing unskilled workers into "One Big Union." As an old-timer put it in James Jones' From Here to Eternity, "You don't remember the Wobblies, you were too young. There has never been anything like them before or since. They called themselves materialist-economists, but what they really were was a religion. They were welded together by a vision we don't possess." Using interviews with surviving Wobblies, photos, songs, cartoons, and some rare and startling film footage of the period, directors Bird and Shaffer saved that vision from oblivion.

“Researched lovingly…. When the facts are presented as fully as they have been here, the feelings that accompanied them aren’t difficult to imagine.” – Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Q & A will follow the screening with directors Deborah Shaffer & Stewart Bird and cinematographer Sandi Sissel.

The Women's Film Preservation Fund is the premier effort of women in the industry to preserve our cultural legacy. Founded in 1995 by NYWIFT in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art, to date the fund has preserved over 75 films in which women have had a major creative role.




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Tue Nov 15: 6:30 pm

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