[CINEMA OF THE NEW DEAL]: POWER AND THE LAND / THE NEW FRONTIER / THE RIVER / THE PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS

[CINEMA OF THE NEW DEAL]: POWER AND THE LAND / THE NEW FRONTIER / THE RIVER / THE PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS

American

Great Depression and the New Deal

Social issues

"Produced at the behest of FRD as means of supporting his controversial New Deal policies, the four films collected in this videocassette provide an accurate, eloquent record of the people and the land if the united States during the 1930s. Transcending state-ordained propaganda, these striking works - filmed by some of the industry's most talented craftsmen and accompanied by the exquisite musical scores of several of the nation's foremost composers - dramatizes the common man anad woman's struggle for survival and their valient crusade to repair an American dream shattered by economic and ecological hardship" (-Videotape jacket)

IVENS, Joris; McCLURE, H.P.; LORENTZ, Pare.

Kino on Video

Kino on Video

1936

Power and the Land : Director: Joris Ivens; Script: Edwin Locke; Commentary: Stephen Vincent Benթt; Cinematography: Floyd Crosby, Arthur Ornitz; Music: Douglas MooreThe New Frontier: Director: H.B. McCLure; Cinematography: W.B. McCarthy; Script: John H. CaulfieldThe River: Director/Writer: Pare Lorentz; Cinematography: Floyd Crosby, Stacy Woodard, Willard Van Dyke; Music: Virgil ThomsonThe Plow That Broke the Plains: Director/Writer: Pare Lorentz; Cinematogaphy: Ralph Steiner, Paul Ivano, Paul Strand, Leo T. Hurwitz; Music: Virgil Thomson

VHS

English

Artist Video (V)

P68936a

105 min.