08 November 1940 Factual 16 mins
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.
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Will Geer as Narrator (voice)
Storrs Haynes as Narrator (voice)
Robert Porterfield as Narrator (voice)
Eric Walz as Narrator (voice)
United States 08 November 1940
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A documentary about silicosis in the Tri-State Mining District in Southwest Missouri Southeast Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma by Sheldon Dick in 1939/1940.
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