Strike City Pt. 1 of 3

Strike City Pt. 1 of 3 Title: The reason we went on strike I was tired of working for six dollars a day & I was tired of my wife & kids working for $3 a day. Pan over foggy morning across barnyard w/ posts, dust. Main title: Strike City super-imposed Black boy by fire. 02:02:13 Small girl feeding very young boy from baby food bottle. CU feet on wooden flooring beside stove. CU lips cooling cup & drinking. Other children & families in tent heated by stove. People talking about striking. Woman cooking, baby playing. Small boys drinking water from soda pop bottles. Woman cleaning beans. 02:04:09 Man walking w/ axe, cutting wood w/ snow on ground & roofs of large tents behind. VO “Well honey, I’m going to tell you one thing, so help me God I still believe in Christianity, but I don’t want to hear ‘em talkin’ this crap to me about we live in a free country...and still people have to live in tents ‘cause of what they believe.” Int. woman combing child’s hair. CU face. Kid walking & running after geese &/or ducks in farmyard. Young boys up wooden steps into house or juke joint. 02:07:18 Int. w/ kids in front of juke-box. Men beside pinball machine. 02:07:48 Winter fields w/ drifted sand across barren crop rows. Man walking across muddy yard w/ tire tracks. Men sitting inside by wood burning stove; voice over about not wanting to hire anyone this year. 02:09:04 POV moving past end of crop rows w/ water standing. MCU Old men & women sitting as man talking to group about non-profit group they’ve set up to build houses at Strike City. CU of board members; walking & talking about where they are going to put the houses. Men pound stakes, stretch string, surveying. Carpenter cutting stakes. CU plot plan for Strike City. Men digging foundations. Cement mixer truck & pouring concrete, men watching & tamping. Poverty; Plantation System; Slavery; 1960s; 1967; Unemployment; Farmworkers; Note: No music rights; must be cleared if used.