The River

1938

The River is a 1938 short documentary film which shows the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States, and how farming and timber practices had caused topsoil to be swept down the river and into the Gulf of Mexico, leading to catastrophic floods and impoverishing farmers. It ends by briefly describing how the Tennessee Valley Authority project was beginning to reverse these problems.

It was written and directed by Pare Lorentz and, like Lorentz's earlier 1936 documentary The Plow That Broke the Plains, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", going into the registry in 1990. [1] [2] The film won the "best documentary" category at the 1938 Venice International Film Festival.

Both films have notable scores by Virgil Thomson that are still heard as concert suites, featuring an adaptation of the hymn "How Firm a Foundation". The film was narrated by the American baritone Thomas Hardie Chalmers. Thomson's score was heavily adapted from his own concert work Symphony on a Hymn Tune.[3] The River later served as the score for the 1983 TV movie The Day After.[4]

The two films were sponsored by the U.S. government and specifically the Resettlement Administration (RA) to raise awareness about the New Deal. The RA was folded into the Farm Security Administration in 1937, so The River was officially an FSA production.

There is also a companion book, The River.[5] The text was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in that year.

Quelle: Wikipedia(englisch)
Kinostart:1938
1936
weitere Titel:
The River en-ca en-gb sh la id
Река
رود (فیلم ۱۹۳۸)fa
The River (film, 1938)
Genre:Dokumentarfilm, sponsored film, Nicht fiktionaler Film
Herstellungsland:Vereinigte Staaten
Originalsprache:Englisch
Farbe:Schwarzweiß
IMDB: 635
Verleih:Paramount Pictures
Regie:Pare Lorentz
Drehbuch:Pare Lorentz
Kamera:Floyd Crosby
Willard Van Dyke
Stacy Woodard
Schnitt:Pare Lorentz
Lloyd Nosler
Musik:Virgil Thomson
Es liegt kein Transcript zu diesem Film vor.
Wenn Sie diese Daten spenden möchten, dann wenden Sie sich gerne an uns.

Rezensionen:

1990
National Film Preservation Board, USA
National Film Registry
Gewinner
1938
Venice Film Festival
Plate
Best Documentary
Gewinner
Datenstand: 24.05.2022 21:28:28Uhr