Dollar a day, ten cents a dance [videorecording] : a historic portrait of Filipino farmworkers in America

Title:

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[videorecording] : [presented by] George Ow, Jr. ; produced by Geoffrey Dunn & Mark Schwartz ; photographed, directed & edited by Mark Schwartz ; written by Geoffrey Dunn ; produced at Impact Productions.

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Cinema Guild, c2007.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Originally produced in 1984.

Abstract:

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. Because few Filipino women settled in the United States the social life of the men centered around common law marriages, athletic clubs, illegal cock fights and dance halls.

Subject Term:

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.

Geographic Term:

California -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Historical films.