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...Harlan County contains incredible courtroom scenes, and when asked about them, Kopple laughed. "I'd have someone sit inside with a wireless mike and when there was enough commotion in the room, I'd open the door and fire away with the camera. You know, somebody shouting, 'There's no justice in Harlan County! and an uproar...
...find on coal mining," Kopple says of her preparation for the film, "went to Washington and met UMWA officials and people in the Bureau of Mines. I crawled through the bowels of every television station in the coalfields looking for footage I could relate." The movie was screened in Harlan soon after it was made, and Kopple gave the people a print they could run whenever they wanted. "The place was packed," she said. "There three showings, and they wheeled people in on big silver hospital beds. It was like reliving the strike to them...
Barbara Kopple won't talk too much about herself. Not important, she says, she'd rather talk about Harlan and the film. She'd rather talk about social change, the anti-war movement, the UMWA. In an industry where so many people are forced to compormise their political ideals to achieve artistic or financial success, Kopple is a refreshing exception...
...long way to Harlan...
...long way from the streets of Boston to the hills of Harlan County in east Kentucky. The people of Harlan County are hard, lean men and women who work all their lives; their hands are broken and rough, especially the hands of the women of Harlan. They miss teeth. Almost without exception, the people of Harlan County work in coal...