"American Dream" film collection

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"American Dream" film collection

1983-1987

https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999464537902121

Outtakes consisting of workprint positives (16mm) and 16mm magnetic soundtrack rolls, plus shot logs, transcripts, and other editing material for the film "American Dream," produced by Barbara Kopple and the Cabin Creek Center for Work and Environmental Studies. The storyline of the edited film centers around the year-long strike at the Hormel Plant in Austin, Minn., but the raw footage includes extensive coverage of several meatpacking plants and communities in the Midwest, and chronicles the human response to economic changes that altered the patterns of life and work for most Midwestern industrial workers.

191 cubic feet

eng, Latn

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6925909

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

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United Food and Commercial Workers Union.

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Cabin Creek Center for Work and Environmental Studies.

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Kopple, Barbara, 1946-

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Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work. Kopple grew up on a vegetable farm in Scarsdale, New York, the daughter of a textile executive. She studied psychology at Northeastern University, where she opted to make her first film instead of writing a term paper for a clinical psychology course. This experience began Kopple's interest in filmmaking. Kopple's political involvement started in college with her participation in antiw...