Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

On today's episode I'm going to share with you an episode I did on our local NPR affiliate

here in Omaha on a documentary that is old but is being re-released.

The documentary is from 1979 and it's called The Wobbles and it's actually about the

history of the IWW.

This was a breakthrough documentary film when it first came out in 1979 and really is

one of the godfathers of the modern documentary.

So just on its own film, you know, attributes, it's a very interesting important film for

the history of documentaries broadly.

But of course as its content is just, you know, left-wing history of the IWW and because

it was shot in 1979, you get actual interviews with IWW members who were active during the

teens and 1920s who are in by the 70s, you know, in their 70s, 80s or 90s and they're

actually this the last basically chunk of time where you could interview people who are

still alive from that time.

So that documentary is fascinating for that reason as well.

But I went on as the, you know, local left-wing expert to talk with some film people about

the film about its substance and to help promote a local nonprofit cinema here in Omaha called

Film Streams that they're doing a re-release remastering of this 1979 documentary, releasing

it in theaters, one of which is Film Streams and they have a whole event planned around

it for Mayday.

So this episode's coming out on Mayday so obviously if you're in the Omaha area and

you hear this quick enough, you can go check it out.

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