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1975WOMEN'S ISSUES
Woman Alive!
Episode #110
OBD: 1975-12-23
TRT: 30 min
Includes a performance by Melissa Manchester, a segment with Lily Tomlin as a Psychologist, another about the First Conference of the National Black Feminist Organization; the woman, Crystal Lee Jordan, who helped organize a labor union at JP Stevens Mill in the south
feminism, empowerment, service, lifestyle, progress

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Disclaimer.
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Intro to Women Alive! Var B&W photos of women and CU on the face of a smiling unknown woman.
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Woman Alive! show opener - fast flashing photos of women from every walk of life, age, race, and style. Woman Alive! graphic.
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Pat & Charles Sackrey segment
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Shots of couple, Pat and Charles Sackrey, working together building their own cabin in a wooded area. Hammering pieces of wood for the roof, using a plane for accuracy. With narration about their relationship by Charles and Pat
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Three '70's women including Pat Sackrey, sitting casually on the front stoop of a home. Pat Sackrey, talking with the other women about her initial expectations and images of her marriage as being something out of a 1950's musical. They all laugh and conclude she was pretty much delusional.

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Charles, with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, in his kitchen cooking a meal in large pots. Girl in rocking chair engrossed in reading a book. Teenage son comes home . Pat following son, arriving home after work, they kiss. Family scene, with a role reversal.
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Same couple, Charles and Pat, lying down next to each other and having a disagreement about Pat's demanding work schedule. They discuss possible solutions.
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Charles standing on a ladder working on the exterior of his home.
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Charles outside cleaning up his property and chopping wood from wood pile. Narration by Charles (unseen)
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The Sackleys sitting casually outdoors, on the ground in the woods, they discuss issues within their relationship.
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WS the unfinished frame of cabin in the woods. Pat, tying on her work belt, works alone on the wood frame, measuring wood, hammering pieces. Pat narrates about their relationship and the impact of the women's movement.
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Pan out from unfinished wood frame of cabin in the woods, figure standing nearby.
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Pat and Charles at home lying down together. Charles talking with Pat about the politics of the women's movement and expresses his opinion that people who "want to make a new world" have to learn how to live with themselves and the people they come into contact with personally.
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Charles, now sitting up and expressing that he's worn down by the level of intensity of the battles in their marriage and sounding as if he is giving up. Pat responding to Charles expresses that she is not threatened and that they talk so much its time they act or let it all alone for awhile.
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Pat and Charles sitting outdoors in a pile of golden leaves, wind blowing , still talking about their relationship. Charles expressing it's about the end of the road while Pat disagrees.
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Huge ball of bright yellow sunshine with the overlay "Melissa Manchester"
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Melissa Manchester Home to Myself (live)
Singer songwriter Melissa Manchester 1975 performing at piano
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Next segment begins - Des Moines, Iowa
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A group of women sitting casually around in a living room and listening intently to an older woman (talking head) talking about her life's experiences. She tells her story about how after getting her Masters Degree from Harvard she was all set to get into the museum world until she was told by a male head of the museum that she should go home and get married. The group laughs as she expresses how ashamed she was about it.
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A young African American woman in the same group expresses that she experiences more opposition because of being a woman than she does as being a Black woman. Other women in the group talk about their similar experiences being a woman in the work force.
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Next segment title cards - Lily Tomlin as Dr. Walker, Psychologist
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Actress Comedian, Lily Tomlin, performing a satirical spoof. Playing a psychologist, she sits and reads several letters from the case of "a distraught husband" who has been writing her for over a month about how his wife has rebelled from all her families demands by shooting pop tarts at the family among other stunts she has pulled. Quite funny and satirical...
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A little 8 year old girl sitting outside talking very seriously into the camera about how she wrote to Wheaties and expressed to them that she likes their products, but doesn't like the idea that there are only boys and men in their commercials. She also states she told them that she wasn't "touching one bit of those tasty Wheaties" until they put a girl in the commercial. She states, sadly and disappointedly, that they wrote back and told her that... "Wheaties is eaten predominately by boys, and they wouldn't change their ads". !! from the mouth of babes...
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INTERVIEW WITH GLORIA STEINEM SPEAKING WITH UNSEEN INTERVIEWER

Gloria Steinem
I think in early childhood, I mean, it's a really little girl, I had the idea that I could be something, even if it was a pretty conventional thing. And then the adolescent period came along and just the role, the whole female role just came down like a vise. And then I began to think that I couldn't be anything, even a conventional thing I had to marry it. And the whole, you know, feeling that you had to find somebody who wanted to do what you also wanted to do in life and attach yourself to that person was really very, very strong. I just thought that on the side, I would do this other little things. I mean, maybe I would, you know, have an interesting job on the side. But it was still very definitely on the side. And it makes it impossible really to find anyone whom you want to share your life with. If you think that your his limitations are going to be totally yours that after that you're you're never going to have a choice. Somebody Elektra once asked me if why it was that women didn't gamble as much as men. And I gave the usual answer, you know, which is that? Well, we don't have enough money, you know, we just don't feel we can risk the money. And afterwards, it occurred to me that the reason we don't gamble cards and poker as much as because our total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. I mean, what could be a bigger gamble, this this problem of being of your total identity, coming from a man, whether the man is your husband, or your father or the person you work for as assistant or CO or advice or whatever it is, Are you the Secretary to that in the movement in the women's movement is known as being male identified, looking for approval for men, for men, total definition for men. But I think you have to talk about being a man junkie, to really get the sense of the strength of it and to understand it as an addiction, which it really is, I mean, you need a kind of shot of identity to to prove that you're really a person, you're just nobody, unless you have a man standing next to you. Whether it's your boss or your husband or a date on Saturday night, and men don't understand how little it matters which man is standing next to you. It's, you know, it's just you're not a complete person. Without that, man, it took me a very long time. I mean, I wasted many, many years. Working Yes, supporting myself, Yes, but doing research for man I knew who were writers giving my ideas and meetings to men because it wouldn't be more acceptable if they suggested it, entertaining their friends living their lives, even if they didn't encourage me to, I mean, I would do it all by myself, even if the men weren't quite able to accept, you know, as a strong woman, I still felt that that was the way I had to behave. I think I had the same problem that a lot of women do. And that is that because society had told me that my group was second class or supportive, at best, I kind of believed. And if I got a little bit up in the world, I didn't want to associate with members of my own group. That kind of dislike of oneself and of one's own group, is something that the women's movement has helped to cure. And it's very joyful. Now to see women making a connection with other women, because at last, we respect ourselves.
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Next sequence begins - New York City
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A group of woman gathered together discussing the first Conference of the National Black Feminist Organization that had taken place recently. Included in this group are Gloria Steinem, Jane Calvin Lewis and Margaret Sloan (of the Nat'l Black Feminist Organization). They discuss aspects of the Conference.
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Gloria Steinem asks the women their feelings about the image of Black women in the media. Camera pan of the room as women express their feelings on the subject. A Black woman responds that whether you have an education or not , but you are a leader in your community, people accuse you of being pushy - and this is because you're Black and because you're a woman.
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CU on a bi-racial woman referring to a recent study that shows the blue collar women who had traditionally been one of the most stable, unchanging forces in society has emerged now as a new political economic and social force interested in changing the world a bit.
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Steinem, introducing the next segment, tells a story about Crystal Lee Jordan, a mill worker at JP Stevens in the south. The influence of the company in the town is so substantial that the workers like Crystal Leigh don't dare to discuss unionizing despite the absolutely deplorable working conditions. The conditions are accepted out of fear, because even to dare to discuss a union is a huge challenge to the people who are so dependent on JP Stevens. Steinem cuts to next segment.
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Next segment begins - Crystal Lee Jordan, Roanoke Rapids, NC
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Var shots a cotton mill along the banks of the Roanoke River, smoke blowing from factory smoke stacks, Sign outside the brick First Christian Church with street sign E. 9th St. and Roanoke Av..
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POV moving vehicle passing small rural homes, J.P. Stevens Water Tower., glass front doors to J.P. Stevens & Co. In. Roanoke Fabricating company.
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Woman, Crystal Jordan, outside entrance to J.P. Stevens Mill using her own words and singing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" song and holding large sign reading, "Fear No One But Your Lord Join TWUA Now!! Small child and other women holding Pro-union signs and handing out pamphlets to mill workers.
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Crystal Lee Jordan inside being interviewed by unseen interviewer talking about the difficulties of getting the workers to join the union and how she was looked down upon by alot of the other women workers. She talks about getting fired.
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Crystal in her kitchen serving breakfast to her children, while narrating her story.
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Crystals's husband and Crystal sitting talking with unseen interviewer. Mr. Crystal stating he's proud of Crystal who is not afraid of the company and continues to fight, and he talks about how JP Stevens has put fear in the workers. Crystal states that the people are not afraid of the union they're afraid of JP Stevens who owns six plants in Roanoke Rapids. Boards at the banks include members from JP and this has put a fear in the people who are afraid the plants will be shut down.
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Excited women and a few men carrying large posters entering room. Pan large Textile Workers Union of America AFL-CIO sign. Another sign reads "Take off your Halo Mr. Stevens, We caught you in Another Lie".
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Var workers including Crystal talking amongst each other about getting other people, their spouses, to sign the union cards.
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CU black cast iron frying pan on the stove at home in the kitchen, man cooking, girl on sewing machine.
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Ext. Young little girl cheerleaders outdoors doing a special "we got a union" cheer. WS from across street of the group of cheerleaders out in front of. brick building in town, jumping, and cheering,.
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Int. a JP Stevens employee meeting. Man at podium, young cheerleaders in the room. Pan audience. Crystal narrating.
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Crystal Lee being interviewed by unseen interviewer continuing discussion about how people thought she was crazy trying to organize, but she hopes to influence the other people about how strongly she believes in the union and wants the man who fired to know they will not get her.
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Crystal accompanied by a guitarist leading the employee meeting audience in a sing along of a spiritual protest song, We Shall Not be Moved. Audience shots including men, women and children.
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Melissa Manchester O Heaven (How You've Changed Me) (live)
Credits roll over Manchester's performance.
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