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SERIES ONE: 1770-1875
The Big H | 
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Private-eye Clio Malarkey investigates "how things got to be the way they are," and learns the importance of studying U.S. history as well as the hazards of misinterpreting it. In the guise of a film-noir detective story, The Big H explores the central role played by working Americans in the nation's past and introduces other videos in the series.
Bronze Award, 1985 Houston Film Festival
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| Through his experiences in the streets of colonial Boston, a poor shoemaker joins the struggle for American independence. Based on the life of George Robert Twelves Hewes, Tea Party Etiquette follows him through celebrated events such as the 1770 Boston Massacre and the 1773 Boston Tea Party, revealing how working people helped make the American Revolution and were changed in the process.
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Lucy Hall leaves her New Hampshire farm in 1833 to work in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. With other young Yankee women, she enters a new world of factory labor and boarding house life. The women soon learn their independence is limited by the factory owners' control over their life and labor, leading Lucy and her co-workers to go on strike.
Certificate of Merit, 1986 Chicago Film Festival
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| A fugitive woman slave describes life, work and day-to-day resistance to slavery on a cotton plantation during the 1840s and 1850s. Time and work are dictated by the master, but slaves strive to make life in the quarters independent of his control. She escapes to the North in the 1850s, only to discover that her former master's legal power extends even to the free city of New York.
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New York City in the 1850s is seen through the conflicting perspectives of a native-born Protestant reformer and an immigrant Irish-Catholic family. As members of the Irish family describe their daily lives, the Five Points slum is revealed as a complicated world that contradicts nineteenth-cenury stereotypes about the behavior and beliefs of the immigrant poor.
Gold Plaque, 1984 Chicago Film Festival
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| Dr. Toer's Amazing Magic Lantern Show
In the years following the Civil War, a company of players travels the South performing for audiences of recently freed slaves. Dr. J. W. Toer's show presents the many meanings of freedom and the ways African Americans worked to realize the promise of emancipation in the face of growing violence and repression.
Bronze Award, 1987 Houston Film Festival
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| ORDERING WHO BUILT AMERICA? SERIES ONE VIDEOS
Each program in the first series is available in 1/2" VHS format for $50.00 each, plus $12.00 shipping and handling. Each video comes with one copy of a viewers guide that may be reproduced without charge. Orders should be directed to:
Purchasing Department 99 Hudson Street, Third Floor New York, N.Y. 10013 tel: 212-966-4248 x201 fax:212-966-4589 Or e-mail ASHP for more information |