56 minutes that'll make you never look at a price tag the same way again.
A cinema verite study of the world of the blue-collar worker and the economic and psychological bind in which he is caught.
Direction
Barron siblings let workers speak, no narration needed.
Editing
Raw vérité cuts that refuse to look away.
Production
1970 industrial America preserved in amber and sweat.
Director
Evelyn Barron
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Evelyn Barron was a rarity in 1970 — women directors in documentary were almost unheard of, making her unflinching focus on male-dominated factory floors doubly radical.
The Barron siblings shot this during the exact moment when American manufacturing began its long decline; these workers didn't know they were documenting the end of an era.
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