An Injury to One
2005 FESTIVAL
53 min.
This film provides a compelling glimpse of a particularly volatile moment in early 20th-century American labor history in the mineral mining industry: the rise and fall of Butte, Montana. The pace is ponderous, the tone artistically “edgy,” as An Injury to One chronicles the mysterious death of union organizer Frank Little, an unsolved murder. The film associates the murder with other offenses against Butte, left with an environmental record “inscribed upon the landscape”; by Anaconda Mining Co.
