The Film & Photo League of San Francisco
@article{Leshne2006TheF,
title={The Film \& Photo League of San Francisco},
author={Carla Leshne},
journal={Film History: An International Journal},
year={2006},
volume={18},
pages={361 - 373}
}The Workers' Film & Photo League movement of the 1930s gave rise to local groups of film activists across the United States. San Francisco's Film & Photo League coalesced in 1933, documenting California labor struggles and social conditions during the Depression, as well as acting as a distribution network for censored Soviet films and American newsreels. The San Francisco Film & Photo League production Century of Progress (1934) is discussed in detail.
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