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Newsreel. 30, Wilmington /

This documentary is about a "company town." The DuPont family controls the state of Delaware as if it were a private kingdom through the giant DuPont Corporation. Their normal image as benevolent, philanthropic liberals is challenged when they called the National Guard into Wilmington afte...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York, NY : Third World Newsreel, 1970.
Series:Newsreel
Subjects:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Economic history.
Corporations > Delaware > Wilmington.
Wilmington (Del.) > Economic conditions.
Wilmington (Del.) > Social conditions.
Histoire économique.
Sociétés > Delaware > Wilmington.
Corporations
Economic history
Social conditions
Delaware > Wilmington
Documentaries and Factual Films
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:This documentary is about a "company town." The DuPont family controls the state of Delaware as if it were a private kingdom through the giant DuPont Corporation. Their normal image as benevolent, philanthropic liberals is challenged when they called the National Guard into Wilmington after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to occupy the city for ten months. Through interviews and verite footage, the film exposes how the DuPont Corporation dominates its workers through its control of education, media, politics and the economy.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed July 14, 2020).
Physical Description:1 online resource (15 minutes)
Playing Time:00:14:35