Release Date | 1953-10-15 |
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Runtime | 29 minutes |
Genres | Documentary |
Stars | Don Hollenbeck, Paul Hall |
Directors | Lester Cooper, Stanley Kubrick, Alexander Pietrzak, Will Chasan, Stanley Kubrick |
Members of the American Federation of Labor, the Atlantic & Gulf Coast District of the Seafarers International Union commissioned budding filmmaker and magazine photographer Stanley Kubrick to direct this half-hour documentary. The director's first film in color, it is more of an industrial film than a documentary, it served as a promotional tool to recruit sailors to the union.