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The River (1938)
Directed by Pare Lorentz
Documentary · 31m
This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental destruction committed in the name of progress, particularly farming and timber practices and their impact on impoverished farmers.
Cast
Thomas Chalmers
Crew
- Director
- Pare Lorentz
- Writer
- Pare Lorentz
- Director of Photography
- Floyd Crosby, Stacy Woodard, Willard Van Dyke
- Original Music Composer
- Virgil Thomson
- Editor
- Leo Zochling, Lloyd Nosler
Details
- Release date
- 1938-02-04
- Runtime
- 31m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Farm Security Administration