The River (1938 film)
- The River (1938 film)
Infobox Film
name = The River
imdb_id = 0029490
director =Pare Lorentz
writer =Pare Lorentz
cinematography =Floyd Crosby Willard Van Dyke
distributor =Farm Security Administration
released =February 4 ,1938
runtime = 31 min.
country = USA | language = English"The River" (1938) is a short
documentary film which shows the importance of theMississippi River to theUnited States , and how farming and timber practices had caused topsoil to be swept down the river and into theGulf of Mexico .It was written and directed by
Pare Lorentz and, like Lorentz's earlier documentary "The Plow That Broke the Plains ", was also selected for preservation in the United StatesNational Film Registry by theLibrary of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", going into the registry in 1990. Both films have notable scores byVirgil Thomson that are still heard as concertsuites .The two films were sponsored by the U.S. government and specifically the
Resettlement Administration (RA) to raise awareness about theNew Deal . The RA was folded into theFarm Security Administration in 1937, so "The River" was officially an FSA production.ee also
* "
The Plow That Broke the Plains "
*Farm Security Administration External links
*imdb title|id=0029490|title=The River
*The River [http://www.archive.org/details/RiverThe1937 (part 1)] and [http://www.archive.org/details/RiverThe1937_2 (part 2)] atThe Internet Archive (missing part 3)
* [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/FILM/lorentz/front.html Pare Lorentz]
* [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/FILM/lorentz/river.html The River]
* [http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/ThePlowTheRiver.htm The River review]
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