Salt Of The Earth (1954)

[@theresac7559]

The only film blacklisted in 1954 in the US. My grandmother Clorinda is in this movie and played a part in the actual strike at the mines in Hanover NM. It is accurate to what actually happened to the Mexican miners and their families. They were harassed during the making of the movie, they did not want this out. I'm so glad it is here for people to watch and enjoy.

[@paulsherman51]

My Dad probably knows Clorinda. Muriel and Clint were old family friends, Dad helped him through the PhD program at Berkeley years ago. The Jencks' were great warm people.

[@theresac7559]

@@paulsherman51 my grandmother passed away when my mom was just 3 years old. If they knew her it would be awesome if they had some stories to share.

[@valis_kr3]

Amazing!

[@rolandomota1192]

@@theresac7559 you are from Silver City?

[@matrix91234]

The movie is so boring is the only crime. Its why movies after 2013 are so boring. Thanks to McCarthyism it saved the movie industry in lots of way of becoming as boring as this

[@ericcortez4678]

Came here because I have to write a paper for my sociology class. All I have to say is wow! Very powerful movie!

[@kevinsgametime]

Hi

[@Mastermayham]

In my dreams☺

[@younghex9577]

I'm here because of my Mexican history class

[@amaricollins7386]

Sameeee

[@ayaprnt]

@@amaricollins7386 same 💀

[@gabrielaguilar1391]

This movie takes place at the old Empire zinc mine in Hanover, NM. My grandfather worked in the mines in this area, right around the time this film was made. He was injured in a collapse, and wisely changed careers. My mother was born just up the road in Santa Rita, which has been consumed by the Chino copper mine. I spent many summers in this area growing up. It is really beautiful country.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

WHAT. Your grandfather worked in the mines, they collapsed AND then he changed careers? Traitorous capitalist toadie! 😱

[@gabrielaguilar1391]

@@MrJoeybabe25 lol, the whole mine didnt collapse, just the drift he was working in. And he was hardly a capitalist, just a man looking to feed his hungry children.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

@@gabrielaguilar1391 "just a man looking to feed his hungry children." That's what most of us are after. And I understand him not being a capitalist, especially with the societal framework he resided in. But a capitalist made a job for him. Without all of the people working to serve their own self interest, from the mine owner, the guy who drew up the blueprints, to the company that made the equipment and the cafe' that served him his lunch, the mine was not even a hole in the ground. And I imagine he didn't give one hoot about the mine. He just wanted to be proud of what he did and provide for his family. If that does not accurately describe your granddad, Gabriel, I think it would describe a lot of the men he worked with.

[@gabrielaguilar1391]

@@MrJoeybabe25 it is accurate. His greatest source of pride was his family, and he did whatever he had to to provide for them. He was proud of his work also, but i believe it was more pride for a job well done. The owners of the mines got rich on the blood and toil of many like him.

[@dorindamoreno4658]

Our parents could have known each other. My parents were compadres of the Chacon's, particularly Virginia y familia, families of last 100 plus years, Garfield/Derry NM, Santa Ana County sent their men to work in mines; history of many in our family circle, cousins, uncles; Sister born in Santa Rita; name Clorinda. Honors to Salt producers, writer, actors, SaldeTerre, Cinema Verite Group, #KeepOnMarchingSisters, FuerzaMundial_ Continuum; attended 50th Anny; Coordinated 60th: contact: g mail, pueblosenmovimientonorte @; queries welcomed.

[@ferretonaskateboard246]

Who knew I'd be watching a pirated film for a History class in the middle of a pandemic

[@drone124]

it's public domain ;)

[@ferretonaskateboard246]

@@drone124 Hell yeah

[@drizzie180]

😂😂😂😂

[@frankwolftown]

Show this to your friends. ;-)

[@Kunsoo1024]

Actually - not pirated. It's public domain, but choice of the creators.

[@yolonda8965]

Every once in a while, I come across a tidbit of history on youtube that I am glad I watched. Thanx ampopfilms.

[@ampopfilms]

Glad you enjoyed , Yolanda!..

[@yolonda8965]

@@ampopfilms You are most welcome.

[@lizasplaylist]

Thank you for showing this. It truly means a lot to be able to see this film.

[@pepepombal6448]

Warmly thankful for posting this Historical document and allow us all to reach at it. Many thanks.

[@jaimiehashey9233]

O My! So glad I watched. My heart sank and exploded for these workers and their families. Definitely, a historic film.

[@ananorman260]

Had to watch this for one of my college classes and this was actually so interesting and heartbreaking

[@RelearningPeace]

Just heard the audible original series about this film. I'm excited to watch it.

[@BradyPostma]

Ooo, what's the Audible original about that? I'd love to watch that, and I have a spare credit.

[@BradyPostma]

Ooo, what's the title? I'd like to read that!

[@jeremiahhuffman2964]

Something told me to search youtube for "Salt of the Earth" and this was first thing that popped up, did not disappoint.

[@ampopfilms]

Thank You, Jeremiah.. Ampopfilms

[@mnkykungfu]

AMAZING film! So ahead of its time. The story behind how this was made (while blacklisted) is definitely worth reading up on too!

[@paulsherman51]

Read up on the Jencks Act. Muriel and Clint were old family friends from UCBerkeley and later SDSU

[@gary100dm]

One of the greatest! films of the 20th century. 😮

[@bryanemmel6516]

This was an excellent movie that should have had wider distribution, but of course in freedom loving America, we don't want so much freedom. Many of the mine strikes didn't turn out well for the miners with governors often calling in the National Guard to break them and even shoot down striking miners. The Taft-Hartley laws were passed after Truman left office and the fascists pretty much took control of government. They were intended to break unions, especially the IWW and they even included loyalty oaths that were eventually ruled unconstitutional. The vile Taft-Hartley laws remain in effect.

[@SamAsm367]

Inspiring. I thought it would be boring. I was inspired. We have to work together to win. People power. El poderío de la gente.

[@arturojmireles]

Very Powerful representation of our people in a good light within cinema.

[@fippo3564]

Here cause Be Kind Rewind recommended me

[@catmadish2411]

57:08 she slapped that handgun out of that mans hand with a chancla (a sandal) like a true hispanic

[@Shy-Shy23]

Strength in numbers! Great film.

[@davealdama]

Que tristeza lo que mi gente de México tuvo que vivir solo por el racismo de los gringos, me alegra que ni en aquellas fechas los mexicanos se quedaban callados, que valor de hacer esta película en aquellos tiempos. ¡¡¡¡VIVA MÉXICO CABRONES!!!! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

[@stereomois]

En general las compañías mineras (francesas, alemanas o de donde fueran) eran bastante opresivas, y solamente a fuerza de protestas las cosas mejoraban un poco. Y, al menos en Baja California Sur, los mineros chinos vivían en condiciones aún peores que los mexicanos

[@BertoV]

Loooove that “Adelita” is played in the background at 57:53, so appropriate!

[@Ahonyma]

Thanks a lot. Could be of some use today too...

[@subhrakantiguhamajumder7869]

Yup

[@gregchambers6100]

omg. The owners of both parties will hate this if it went viral.

[@jrockercutie06]

STRENGTH WHEN WE WORK TOGETHER IN NUMBERS FOR THE RIGHT THING

[@06BIBOI]

GREAT Movie !!

[@grandson_0623]

My mother introduced me to this film, today Labor Day 2021, very good.

[@arturoortega8564]

Thanks a lot Be Kind Rewind.

[@jackchevalier7339]

most excellent.

[@molotovmafia2406]

The random shitty commentary no one asked for: 20:00 What a beautiful moment! So proud of the boys😔👊 31:15 ah yes, the ever-present capitalist logic. they always tell people to fight for their dreams and goals, etc. But if they team up and try to do the same thing as a collective instead of individually, it's suddenly wrong and they are crazy or whatever. 35:20 and that, kids, is what happens when healthcare gets commodified 36:20 my heart... 49:30 queen. how many toxic masculinity can 1 fucking room fit? And they are supposed to be progressive... 57:14 ICON I LOVE HER. Esperanza is the best girl. Well done ladies i´m proud of you😍😍😍 57:58 Ramón´s face😁 i wonder how he´ll take care of the home... 1:10:00 lol way to go gentlemen 1:18:25 badass queen My new favourite movie!!

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Yep, nobody asked for it. Imagine complaining about a film from 1954 not conforming to the regressive insanity of 2020.

[@ronkeylinarizini8049]

@@ricardocantoral7672 Imagine being this negative and annoying

[@quinnthereaux7719]

lmao thank you for your contribution, this movie really is fantastic

[@shredded_lettuce]

Solidarity amongst the KZbin commenters against this asshole, Ricardo Cantoral.

[@gracie99999]

hahaah lol that first sentence 💰

[@sneakyninja0866]

Need this for my sociology class thanks for posting this! I was scared I was gonna have to pay😅

[@anthonyseelbach6591]

good film... similar story line to MATEWAN. If you have not seen it do so... It is a GREAT movie!

[@Philmod68]

I'm sure Matewan was heavily influenced by this movie(being that it came out like 33 years later)...

[@henrybrowne7248]

Damn what a wonderful movie. I originally wanted to listen to Sol Kaplan's music but just got drawn in. Very believable.

[@falpsdsqglthnsac]

i mean, that's unsurprising considering they had such a hard time getting actors that some of the actual miners from the original strike the movie is based on ended up playing themselves.

[@BradyPostma]

My grandfather was a miner, but not of zinc and not in New Mexico. He mined copper outside of Butte, Montana. When the mine ruined his health, the union doctor told him to retire somewhere hot and dry to minimize his crippling arthritis. He, his wife, and his four youngest boys who were still living at home moved to the Utah/Arizona border on his union pension. Maybe he was better off because of union successes, or maybe because he was white (a Dutch immigrant). He was still very poor. His sons work like men who have tasted poverty and never want to see it again. But they vote for deregulators and union-busters. They don't respect what the unions did for their father, or maybe they blame the unions. I don't understand that. Some gear slipped.

[@anonymousnarwhal4323]

55:11 A cop being gross. Not much has changed lol

[@matrix91234]

thats just communist narrative. In reality its more due to 2nd amendment being in conflict with law enforcement. So shooting cops or they shooting you is probably the ironic conflict when you have one rule saying you can protect your private property vs cops who is supposed to check crime.

[@thanib7796]

1:19:45 Wow. So powerful.

[@laylahli7558]

She really went the fuck off!!

[@frankwolftown]

This is the crux of the matter in every cause.

[@thanib7796]

@@laylahli7558 She really did. Also, I can't believe it's been a year since I've watched this. How time flies...

[@kaslinamsterdam8990]

Thanks to this course I just completed "Feminism & Social Justice"... I really enjoyed this film

[@thenationreport7210]

Upon viewing cast credits, I fully expected to see Esperanza (Rosaura) and Ramon (Juan) first. Clearly discriminatory listing of credits. Loved the juxtaposition of Esperanza giving birth w Ramon getting his stomach punched bc that's what giving birth felt like, except for 24 hours.

[@rockribbedrushy7705]

What are you talking about? That's how credits are done.

[@thenationreport7210]

@@rockribbedrushy7705 I'll explain since you missed it. Esperanza and Ramon were the main characters, not the cops.

[@rockribbedrushy7705]

@@thenationreport7210 not according to the credits

[@ruthmoreland2554]

Important piece of history

[@ioroman]

Powerful and in many ways current.

[@terraterra9014]

Ahead of its time. Amazing

[@Mrpachuko13]

Lol This was and still is the time!!

[@goodkawz]

Never saw The Rolling Stones once. Should have realized they weren’t very big in ‘54.

[@imarginacionmxd]

Nice!

[@kidmack3556]

1:26:41 Best lines in the film: Will "Grampa Walton" Geer : "You want me to lock em up again?" Juan Chacón : "You want em in your lock up again?" BWAAHAAHAA!!!!

[@notsoancientpelican]

youtube is apparently preventing this movie from being played. Why??

[@ampopfilms]

All fixed..

[@davealdama]

01:21:29 “this changes come with pain” así es los cambios en la sociedad son NECESARIOS, le duela a quién le duela!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@derekgantt6282]

The strength is in the struggle..long live our liberations..upon this globe..freedom is like our oceans. It rises...peace and respect

[@jayaramj9630]

Noam Chomsky suggests this movie!

[@estebanpuente5477]

Ya'll someone tell me what is the literary significance of film's title Salt of the Earth?

[@ertwas9630]

Has to do with a line in the bible I think. You can search it up. Not sure though.

[@manuelhernandez6179]

Stanza from "Machu Picchu" (1950) by Pablo Neruda. Like the movie, it centers workers´s struggle. This was the dwelling, this is the place: here the fat grains of maize grew high and came down again like red hail. Here the golden thread took off from the vicuna to dress the loved ones, the tombs, the mothers, the king, the prayers, the warriors. Here man’s feet rested at night beside the eagle’s feet, in the high ravenous perches, and at dawn they walked with thunder’s feet through the rarefied fog, and touched the lands and the stones enough to know them at night or in death. I look at the clothing and the hands, the trace of water in the sonorous hollow, the wall made smooth from the touch of a face that saw with my eyes the lamplights of earth, that oiled with my hands the vanished wood beams: because everything, clothes, skin, dishes, words, wine, bread, has passed, fallen to earth. And the air entered with orange-blossom fingers over everyone asleep: a thousand years of air, months, weeks of air, of blue wind, of iron cordillera, that were like the steps of gentle hurricanes polishing the solitary precinct of the stone.

[@solodreamytraveller6648]

I am here after reading somewhere that this is Noam Chomsky's favourite movie.

[@paulineamos4653]

He mentions this in his Cambridge Massachusetts talk on Anarchy and deomocracy

[@davealdama]

Y AME EL EMPODERAMIENTO DE LAS MUJERES ✨! ¡¡¡¡¡VIVAN LAS MUJERES !!!! ✨

[@DarthVagen]

best movie.

[@twontree]

the right to live in dignity!♥️

[@JustJoshIsUnavailable]

Alright who is doing a project or anything related about this movie?

[@aliceliu4548]

I enrolled a course on coursera talk about feminism, this video is recommanded by the professor in our second week study

[@lalrajv.t.974]

Same here

[@tinatrutanich2405]

Mi favorite ❤

[@Newyorkhollywoodandvine]

Ms. Salazar joined the march.

[@geniehossain3738]

BKR Day 4!

[@menikmati789]

I watched this movie years ago, but I remember a scene where a quiet woman stands up to speak, but gets interrupted by someone yelling “LOUDER!!” - however I skimmed through this movie now, and couldn’t find that scene… Did anyone see it?

[@josechavezramirez7345]

20:30 Should be around there

[@josechavezramirez7345]

sorry I meant 22:30

[@menikmati789]

@@josechavezramirez7345 thank you!

[@rachelword2246]

It’s when the women go to the union meeting.

[@illuminae4725]

I got sent here by a post on tumblr

[@wetfire-gf1gb]

Since everyone's saying why they're watching this movie, I'll chime in too. I'm here because of Bettina Apthekar's Coursera course on feminism.

[@xXCrozz]

el profe nos pidió ver esta película y todos vimos el documental de un fotógrafo ... ayer en clase quede como un puñetas jajajaja

[@AnotherWayFilms]

This film was made in defiance of the Hollywood Blacklist and the "Red Scare" ravaging families across the Nation. Against all odds, the film makers and cast made this demonstration of the power of solidarity and labor organizing to fight discrimination and employer oppression of the rank and file workers. The cast is mostly local, non-actors, with the courage to speak out.

[@MonttVaras]

The hearings of HUAC brought me here.

[@Newyorkhollywoodandvine]

The scabs left!

[@BLKPlutoh]

Who else cause @BKR 25 Days of Actresses 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@JRGilly6694]

Is this film still banned?

[@theresac7559]

It was originally banned when it was first released in 1954. This movie was blacklisted. Not anymore you can buy it on DVD :)

[@CatAdvocate1]

This film got a wonderful shout-out in John Sayles's "Return of the Secaucus 7" at kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2Xadmd4iNGJg80, beginning at 1:25:55.

[@notsoancientpelican]

KZbin will not let this movie be played. Censorship!!!

[@ampopfilms]

All fixed..

[@gracie99999]

and still scratching head why this still allowed? no one steppen in? seems the steppers ones steppen

[@moterciti]

Hanover, NM. is now a ghost town .

[@Newyorkhollywoodandvine]

Are those sympathizers in the crowd?

[@runthomas]

if you appreciate this film watch .....land and freedom.... a real anarchist movie

[@natalianegrete7160]

whos here cause their professor assigned an essay to do and you have to watch this lmaoo great film tho

[@Newyorkhollywoodandvine]

Coffee and tacos!!!

[@SicklyVictorianBoy]

22:38 Me listening to the audio of this movie

[@frankwolftown]

1:19:20 If I was movie director all my films would have a scene like this. The wife standing up to her husband. The gay son standing up to his father. The trans standing to the Republican elected official. Along with with whatever combination you could think of for this scene.

[@everestcanyon5647]

10:21 - That's what you hear about children in Africa when you're a picky eater. It doesn't make me want to eat this slop any more, it makes me want to give the slob to the children of Africa. Probably not the best message to give to kids. Why can't we both eat nice food?

[@everestcanyon5647]

Basically, it's using another's misfortune to keep from treating both groups fairly. Sure one got it worse, but that doesn't make the treatment of either right, but you're so wrapped up in not improving your situation because the other got it worse, that ultimately, things improve for neither.

[@Newyorkhollywoodandvine]

Ramon never approves of women interference, but loves coffee.

[@Newyorkhollywoodandvine]

Union!

[@GeneralYutubi]

1.06: company stooge or fascistic cop says "but you've played every TRUMP in your hand", another one replies: "not every TRUMP". Prophetic words indeed.

[@Newyorkhollywoodandvine]

It is a reference, not an allusion. This is not literary.

[@silvereagle2061]

latino USA (NPR) brought me here.

[@minnosicerikler6892]

ESRA BİLGİC😍

[@heatherabshire7317]

What a powerful movie!! wow. Rich in content. not like most of today's trash tv.

[@Mastermayham]

A wicked film of oppression but with God everything is possible.

[@DarthVagen]

where did you see god?

[@illuminae4725]

You're so goddamn terrible at writing I don't even know what point you're trying to convey? did you like the film or not?

[@grandson_0623]

Likely the other way around, you are "so goddam terrible" at reading. The film is, obviously, not wicked. It is about oppression, and overcoming it. They described the oppression as wicked and said that (in concurrence with a continual theme throughout the film) God could make life easier for anyone.

[@tron2007]

USA is the greatest country in the World!

[@megalomaniacalHalide]

Said nobody who actually studies politics, socioeconomics, global history or workers rights.

[@tron2007]

Why do I need to study something, am I losser or nerd? Such films are wrong and "This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy".

[@megalomaniacalHalide]

@@tron2007 Ignorance, as trump proved with covid, can get people killed. Studying and understanding our world helps keep us alive. This film, while fictional, helped showcase the dangers that racism and segregation were causing.

[@tron2007]

Racism and segregation isn't main theme of this film. The Richest make it possible for the rest of the loser to earn money.

[@matrix91234]

Thank God McCarthyism happend. Its not about political stuff in movies. Its how dull and boring Socialist directors are. 1960s-2013 at best. Has lot of thanks to Joseph McCarthy for making entertainment fun and not dull and boring like Millennial movies are, which never was influenced by McCarthyism.

[@jnnx]

Face it, you’ve been brainwashed to love propaganda and your own mental enslavement.

[@NewsHistorian]

Not too many independent films criticizing government injustice coming out of Stalin's Soviet Union or Mao's China in 1954.

[@Painocus]

I mean the crew was blacklisted, the director jailed, the set shot at with rifles, the main actress deported and the film was more or less banned so...

[@rileypruitt1834]

Somebody needs to read history...

[@irinakantt]

@@Painocus oh wow! I didn’t know that… then again, that is expected from mighty old America.. this film is definitely a gem though!

[@briannagravely9349]

If you learn Russian or Mandarin you might be able to find some.

[@shredded_lettuce]

Imagine commenting this on the film that was blacklisted upon release in 1954 lmao. The USA is authoritarian too and always has been. Learn some basic history outside of the brainwashing you received in elementary school.

[@johnbaldwin8340]

You won't know True SACRIFICE once YOU KNOW you absolutely been through experience yourself. by default all things .. in the beginning we all had to do some type of WORK or JOB to feed Ourselves.. you know to live i guess. then we meet other species and eventualy our own kind.. we develop a kind of Relation to each kind of these species and our own kind .. i mean come on.. trial and error . put one and one together, what will they do ?? will they mate and multiply ? kill each other? imagine a story where a a man and a woman were savages and they never really like each other.. COMPLETELY different story of course . lol the man killed the woman or woman killed the man .. What did GOD had to reset everything ? HOW MANY TIMES DID HE HAD RESET Or Create ANOTHER MAN and WOMAN. imagine that this is still GOING and GOD hasn't RESET yet . because somehoe WE are going in the RIGHT DIRECTION. the RESET could be any world ending senario ..

[@ziblot1235]

Communist propaganda

[@goodkawz]

Proudly made with non-union actors. 😉 ?

[@shredded_lettuce]

Hell yeah

[@VickiNeumeier]

LOL!