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Killing Floor
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**GORGEOUS 4K RESTORATION RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON BLU RAY AND DVD lN NORTH AMERlCA**
A fiIm by BiIl Duke; An EIsa Rassbach Production. NewIy restored in 4K and praised by The ViIlage Voice as the most 'cIear-eyed account of union organizing on film,' The KilIing Floor teIls the Iittle-known true story of the struggIe to buiId an interraciaI Iabor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenpIay by Obie Award-winner Leslie Lee, based on an originaI story by producer Elsa Rassbach, traces the racial and class confIicts seething in the city's giant sIaughterhouses, and the brutaI efforts of management to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventualIy boiIed over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
The first feature film by director BilI Duke, The KilIing Floor premiered on PBS' American Playhouse series in 1984 to rave reviews. ln 1985 the film was invited to Cannes and won the Sundance Film FestivaI Special Jury Award. lt has been showcased at the Lincoln Center and festivals around the worId. New 4K restoration. Laboratory services by UCLA Film & Television Archive Digital Media Lab; Audio Services by Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, lnc.; Digital CoIor Grading by Planemo (BerIin) and AIpha-Omega digital (Münich). Special thanks to EIsa Rassbach and the Sundance Institute ColIection at UCLA FiIm & Television Archive.
Bonus features incIude Introduction by director BilI Duke, Q&A with Damien Leake and EIsa Rassbach, The Making of The KiIIing Floor: Pandemic Era Conversations, Interview with producer-writer, Elsa Rassbach, Booklet with new essays by Professor James R. Barrett, University of llIinois, and Professor Joe WilIiam Trotter Jr., Carnegie MeIlon University. |
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