People of the Cumberland

People of the Cumberland is a 1937 short film directed by Sidney Meyers and Jay Leyda and produced by Frontier Films. The film is designed to support the U.S. labor union movement and it mixes nonfiction filmmaking and dramatic reenactions.

People of the Cumberland was part of a series of motion pictures created by Frontier Films, a collective of documentary filmmakers who focused on subjects relating to political and economic hardship. Frontier Films originally begin in 1931 as the New York Film and Photo League before changing its name in 1937. The collective focused on short films and disbanded in 1942 after producing its only featurelength production, Native Land.People of the Cumberland had two directors, Sidney Meyers and Jay Leyda, who used the pseudonyms Robert Stebbins and Eugene Hill for their screen credit, and Elia Kazan served as assistant director. ........

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