Workers Film and Photo League
- Workers Film and Photo League
The Workers Film and Photo League was an organization of cultural workers in the United States affiliated with the Friends of Soviet Russia and thereby to the [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationale_Arbeiterhilfe Internationale Arbeiterhilfe] or International Workers Relief. The WIR was led by the German Willi Muenzenberg.
History
In the 1920's and 1930's, the WFPL produced documentaries of , including the Passaic Textile Strike, the Gastonia Textile Strike and the National Miners Union strike of 1931 - 1932. As a cultural organization of the Communist Party USA, these newsreels were generally not distributed to theaters, but shown at party or Trade Union Unity League events.
In 1933 "workers" was dropped from the title and the organization became the Film and Photo League. The Soviet section of the WIR was abolished in 1935. The FPL survived for another year, but was finally converted into a private production company.
Members of the WFPL
* Lester Balog
* Sam Brody
* Robert Del Duca
* Leo T. Hurwitz
* Lewis Jacobs
* Vic Kandel
* Irving Lerner
* Jay Leyda
* David Platt
* Julian Roffman
* Leo Seltzer
* Ralph Steiner
External links
* Campbell, Russell. [http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC14folder/FilmPhotoIntro.html "Film and Photo League: Radical cinema in the 30s"] . Jump Cut:A Review of Contemporary Media, no. 14, 1977, pp. 23-25. Retrieved August 24, 2006.
* www.sambrody.com
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