REPUBLIC STEEL STRIKE
Riot Newsreel Footage

by *CINÉASTE INCONNU·E - UNKNOWN FILMMAKER*
1937 / 35mm / b&w / sound and silent / 1S / 7' 59

A 1937 documentary film which tells the story of a strike at Republic Steel on Memorial Day, May 26, 1937, which escalated into a massacre in which 10 workers were murdered by Chicago police, documented by this film.
The newsreel was produced by Paramount Pictures for their Paramount News series. In 1997, the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The footage contained in the newsreel was illegally banned from being shown in Chicago by the Chicago Police Department for fear of causing unrest, and later the Paramount News company agreed to refrain from screening the event elsewhere.

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distribution format Digital file on server (FHD)
screen 4/3 (single screen)
speed 24 fps
sound sound
original language English
rental fee 37,00 €