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Salt of the Earth : Faulty Dynamite

Zinc miners like Ramon (Juan Chacón) are subject to dangerous working conditions and are constantly reminded that they are expendable.

Faulty Dynamite

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accented speech, close-up, dialogue, graphic match, hard lighting, match cut, medium close-up, music, nondiegetic, one-shot, over the shoulder shot, shot/reverse shot, sound effects

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LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, Latinx: Mestizo

"Faulty Dynamite" in Salt of the Earth. Directed by Herbert J. Biberman, Intl Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, 1954, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2487

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