Men and Dust (1940)

  • NR
  • 11/08/1940 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 16m

Overview

This labor advocacy film is about diseases plaguing miners in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Sponsored by the Tri-State Survey Committee, "Men and Dust" is a stylistically innovative documentary and a valuable ecological record of landscapes radically transformed by extractive industry.

Lee Dick

Director

Sheldon Dick

Writer

Cast

Will Geer's headshot

Will Geer

Narrator (voice)
Storrs Haynes's headshot

Storrs Haynes

Narrator (voice)
Robert Porterfield's headshot

Robert Porterfield

Narrator (voice)
Eric Walz's headshot

Eric Walz

Narrator (voice)

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