The City

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The City (1939)

Directed by Willard Van Dyke, Ralph Steiner

Documentary · 44m

A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Willard Van Dyke, Ralph Steiner
Writer
Pare Lorentz, Henwar Rodakiewicz, Lewis Mumford
Director of Photography
Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke
Original Music Composer
Aaron Copland
Editor
Theodore Lawrence

Details

Release date
1939-05-26
Runtime
44m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
American Documentary Films Inc., American Institute of Planners, Civic Films Inc.