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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
Affiliate ticket price of $6.00
for all labor union members with ID.
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