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Gold Run
Series title:Thursday NightHierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Item number (ISN):15919Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTOAccession:1983-0360Media:VideoRelease date:1969-11-20Production company:Canadian Broadcasting CorporationProduction credit:director/producer, Anthony Shaw; executive producer. Prod, Tony Essex; editing, Philip ShawDescription:Televsion documentary on the "gold runners", immigrant workers from other African countries who work in the gold mines of South Africa. Footage depicts a training centre for mine workers; a professional smuggler running an illegal border crossing; the poverty of blacks in Lesotho; the wealth of many whites in Johannesburg; black workers acting out a theatrical version of their role as "Noble Savage"; men working in the gold mines and at various other low-paying, immigrant jobs.Subjects:ALIEN LABOUR~BLACKS~GOLD~GOLD MINERS~LABOUR & LABOURING CLASSES~MINES & MINING~RACE RELATIONS~SOUTH AFRICALanguage:EnglishDetailed holdings information: -
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