Pacific Street Films

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Pacific Street Films is a documentary film production company founded in Brooklyn, New York in 1969 by Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler. They have produced more than 100 films. In 2004 the Museum of Modern Art hosted a career retrospective on Pacific Street Films.

The Free Voice of Labor

Fischler and Sucher created the documentary film The Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists in 1980 about the history of Jewish Anarchists in the United States. It focuses on the Jewish Anarchist movement that arose from sweatshop workers in the United States, along with their lives as new immigrants back then and their then contemporary retirement. The film's raison d'etre was the 1977 coverage of the closing of the Yiddish anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbeter Shtime. The film features scenes from Uncle Moses (1932); a Yiddish Language film about the labour struggles within the Jewish community in America. The film is noted for its use of music: collecting together various yiddish folk and political songs that interspersed around the film, including an early recording of In Ale Gasn/Daloy Politsey as a combined song.

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