Butte, America

Butte, America
Butte, America
	North American release poster
Directed by	Pamela Roberts
Written by	Eugene Corr; Edwin Dobb
Produced by	Pamela Roberts; Jane Greenberg
Narrated by	Gabriel Byrne
Cinematography	Erik Daarstad
Edited by	Jennifer Chinlund
Music by	Todd Boekelheide
Production; companies	Rattlesnake Productions, Inc.
Release date	January 17, 2008;
Running time	67 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Butte, America is a 2008 documentary film about Butte, Montana's history as a copper mining town. It was created by Pamela Roberts, narrated by Gabriel Byrne, and includes a mix of first hand accounts and scholarly analysis from John T. Shea, Marie Cassidy, David Emmons, and Janet Finn.^[1] The movie focuses on developments in American labor and production during the dawn of the electrical age in the 1880s when copper was discovered in Butte. The mining activity brought an influx of immigrant workers and their families to the boom town that grew to be a Western metropolis of 45,000 people forming a Rocky Mountain city that with similarities to Pittsburgh in the East.^[1] Labor relations and the corporate operations of Anaconda Copper are also related.^[1]

The film aired on the Independent Lens PBS show on October 20, 2009.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Cynthia Fuchs Independent Lens: Butte, America October 20, 2009 Pop Matters
^ Doug Knoop 'Butte, America' documentary on PBS' 'Independent Lens' is a Tuesday TV pick October 20, 2009 Seattle Times

External links

Official website
Butte, America at IMDb
Butte, America site for Independent Lens on PBS

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[pop-1] Cynthia Fuchs Independent Lens: Butte, America October 20, 2009 Pop Matters

[2] Doug Knoop 'Butte, America' documentary on PBS' 'Independent Lens' is a Tuesday TV pick October 20, 2009 Seattle Times

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