By Their Own Strength

Réalisé par Evelyn Spice Cherry

Canada, 1940 (documentaire / fiction, 33 minutes, noir et blanc)

Description du film [en anglais] :
« The film traces the history of wheat farming in the Canadian West and how, through co-operative action and the formation of wheat pools, farmers have united to improve their lot and stabilize prices. »
-- Library and Archives Canada (source)

Description du film :
« Une histoire des cultivateurs de blé de l'Ouest de 1906 à 1939. »
-- Jana Vosikovska (source)

Générique (partiel) :
Scénario :	Evelyn Cherry
Produit par :	Lawrence Cherry, Evelyn Cherry
Images :	Lawrence Cherry
Montage images :	Evelyn Cherry
Société de production :	Saskatchewan Wheat Pool

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Notes sur By Their Own Strength

Film muet avec intertitres anglais.

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Citations sur By Their Own Strength [en anglais]

« Using a dramatized documentary approach, By Their Own Strength depicts the farmers' protests against being exploited by the grain buyers and middlemen. It also conveys the growth of the co-operative movement on the Prairies from the turn of the century through to the establishment of the early Grain Growers' Grain Company and the development of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. Despite a rather excessive use of titles to convey information, this is a powerful film [...]. »
-- Peter Morris (source)

« By Their Own Strength (1940) is remarkable in the way it depicts class conflict in a bold, agit-prop montage style, foregrounding the contributions of working people to larger social and economic systems. »
-- Christine Ramsay (source)