Tales From The Long Memory is a documentary series
based on "Loafer's Glory - The Hobo Jungle of the Mind."
based on "Loafer's Glory - The Hobo Jungle of the Mind."
Charlie Hall
The Producers
Bevin Bell-Hall
Bevin is the co-director
and co-producer of the award winning documentary, La Vie en Verte: The WAMM Movie. She also co-created the San Francisco based web series, Through the Golden Gates. Bevin has worked in the theatre as an actress, director, playwright and is an award winning choreographer. She is currently employed as part of the acting company at the Hilberry Theatre in Detroit, MI.
and co-producer of the award winning documentary, La Vie en Verte: The WAMM Movie. She also co-created the San Francisco based web series, Through the Golden Gates. Bevin has worked in the theatre as an actress, director, playwright and is an award winning choreographer. She is currently employed as part of the acting company at the Hilberry Theatre in Detroit, MI.
Charlie is an award-wining documentary
filmmaker and has worked as a freelance
media producer for non-profit organizations to
develop fundraising and educational video
programs since 2005. Charlie’s first feature
length documentary “La Vie en Verte: The
WAMM Movie” won the Audience award for
best documentary at the Santa Cruz Film
Festival 2010 and was released on DVD in the
spring of 2011, www.thewammmovie.com
Associate Producer
Duncan Phillips
Duncan Phillips
Duncan, the son of Bruce “Utah” Phillips, began
performing on stage shortly after his dad's
death in 2008. Along with Utah's old road-worn
Guild guitar, Duncan inherited the songs and
stories of the people and places that his father
wrote about over his forty plus years of
wandering the country. In addition to touring
and producing albums as a folk musician
Duncan maintains the website
www.thelongmemory.com where he has made
available all 100 episodes of Loafer’s Glory and
is working to digitize his collection of recorded
Utah Phillips concerts.
Tales From The Long Memory is a documentary series.
Episode 1: Bread & Roses is about Labor,
Episode 2: Utah's Place is about Poverty
Episode 3: My Body is a Ballot is about Civil Rights
Episode 4: Already Against the Next War is about Peace
Please stay tuned for more updates on all the episodes.
Episode 1: Bread & Roses is about Labor,
Episode 2: Utah's Place is about Poverty
Episode 3: My Body is a Ballot is about Civil Rights
Episode 4: Already Against the Next War is about Peace
Please stay tuned for more updates on all the episodes.
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Utah's Place.
Utah's Place.
CONTACT INFORMATION
e-mail
duncan@thelongmemory.com
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 711668
SLC, UT. 84171
duncan@thelongmemory.com
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 711668
SLC, UT. 84171
The Synopsis of Episode 1
Tales From The Long Memory: Bread & Roses
Labor Day for folk singer U. Utah Phillips is ranting season. From the community radio station in a quaint Northern Californian gold rush town he broadcasts the history of labor organizing, which has accomplished all that workers currently enjoy but warns the youth that the fight is far from over. Basing his knowledge on what he learned riding the rails and as a member of the Industrial Workers of the World he unveils the dynamic struggle of the working class to organize themselves and demand a quality of life that provides bread yes, but roses too.
In this captivating documentary the past meets the present as a new generation is trained to organize effectively, working class Americans demand a living wage from those who profit from their labor and the citizens of Detroit battle to maintain the hard won victories of the labor movement in the midst of the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history. With passion and indelible wit Utah portrays a civilization built by labor and declares that we must honor the work of those who contribute to the quality of our lives, “The next time you see your garbage man, run out and ask for his autograph.”
Tales From The Long Memory: Bread & Roses
Labor Day for folk singer U. Utah Phillips is ranting season. From the community radio station in a quaint Northern Californian gold rush town he broadcasts the history of labor organizing, which has accomplished all that workers currently enjoy but warns the youth that the fight is far from over. Basing his knowledge on what he learned riding the rails and as a member of the Industrial Workers of the World he unveils the dynamic struggle of the working class to organize themselves and demand a quality of life that provides bread yes, but roses too.
In this captivating documentary the past meets the present as a new generation is trained to organize effectively, working class Americans demand a living wage from those who profit from their labor and the citizens of Detroit battle to maintain the hard won victories of the labor movement in the midst of the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history. With passion and indelible wit Utah portrays a civilization built by labor and declares that we must honor the work of those who contribute to the quality of our lives, “The next time you see your garbage man, run out and ask for his autograph.”
Description
U. Utah Phillips crisscrossed the country on freight trains in search of teachers that would help him understand the world and his place in it. As a folk singer he enchanted his audience with humor and insight and taught them the lessons he had learned while tramping about an America rarely seen. Later in life, Utah settled in Nevada City, California. From there he produced a radio program that brought his traveling show to the audience of the airwaves and committed it to a permanent recording, this was "Loafer’s Glory: The Hobo Jungle of the Mind."
Contained within the episodes of the radio program "Loafer’s Glory"
is the story of an America rarely seen. Utah describes the conditions
of the past two centuries as inexorably caught up in conflict
between the working class and the “ownership class” with the later
having enjoyed ultimate dominance for hundreds of years, building
massive fortunes on the backs of the workers, sending them to
labor in the fields and factories and sending them to fight in a
perpetual state of war. He also relates a vision of hope for a future
built on the solidarity of the working class, disempowering the
ownership class by refusing their wars through pacifism, refusing
their working conditions through labor organizing and refusing the
necessity of their existence by creating voluntary combinations of
like-minded people to get the work of the world done without “the
boss” and without the state and then teaching the next generation
to do the same.
"Tales from the Long Memory" is a four-part documentary series narrated by U. Utah Phillips based on his radio program "Loafer’s Glory: The Hobo Jungle of the Mind." The directive is to educate about nineteenth and twentieth century class warfare and to make a direct link to the present day and the continuation of similar conditions and struggles. His narration of songs, stories, and poetry combine into an overall arch covering one main topic per episode; they are labor, poverty, civil rights and peace.
The objective is to make this documentary series available to as many persons and organizations as possible it is thereby the intention of the producers to make them free to the public. All four episodes of "Tales From The Long Memory" will ultimately be available to view and download online for free, physical copies will be available at a minimum donation and we will encourage free community screenings in as many venues as possible.
"Tales from the Long Memory" is a four-part documentary series narrated by U. Utah Phillips based on his radio program "Loafer’s Glory: The Hobo Jungle of the Mind." The directive is to educate about nineteenth and twentieth century class warfare and to make a direct link to the present day and the continuation of similar conditions and struggles. His narration of songs, stories, and poetry combine into an overall arch covering one main topic per episode; they are labor, poverty, civil rights and peace.
The objective is to make this documentary series available to as many persons and organizations as possible it is thereby the intention of the producers to make them free to the public. All four episodes of "Tales From The Long Memory" will ultimately be available to view and download online for free, physical copies will be available at a minimum donation and we will encourage free community screenings in as many venues as possible.
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memory 2015
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Utah Phillips presents the story of America in conflict between labor and wealth and reveals a vision of hope built on solidarity of the working class.
Utah Phillips presents the story of America in conflict between labor and wealth and reveals a vision of hope built on solidarity of the working class.