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Dollar a day, ten cents a dance : a historic portrait of Filipino farmworkers in America
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Presents a portrait of Filipino farm laborers who came to the United States in the 1920s and 1930s expecting a more prosperous life-style. Voicing their recollections these now elderly men reveal t...
Presents a portrait of Filipino farm laborers who came to the United States in the 1920s and 1930s expecting a more prosperous life-style. Voicing their recollections these now elderly men reveal the poverty and social and cultural difficulties they experienced.
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- Creator
- Impact Productions ; producer/director, Geoffrey Dunn & Mark Schwartz ; writer, Geoffrey Dunn
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- San Francisco, CA : Distributed by Center for Asian American Media, [2005]
- Physical Details
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- 1 videodisc (29 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocn182861798
- Credits
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- Narrated by T.C. Golez; Celedonio La Questa, Jacinto Sequig
- Music, Jose Maliga ... [et al.] ; photographer/editor, Mark Schwartz
- Originally released in 1984.
- DVD.
Subjects
- Filipino Americans -- Social life and customs.
- Filipino Americans -- California -- Social life and customs.
- Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- United States.
- Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- California -- History -- 20th century.
- Farm life -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Farm life -- California -- History -- 20th century.
- California -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.