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Our daily bread : and other films of the Great Depression / Viking Productions inspired by Headlines of today ; scenario, Elizabeth Hill ; story and direction, King Vidor.
LIBRA DVD 002 262
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Blackhawk Films collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depressions--1929--United States--Drama.
- Depressions.
- Social conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- United States--Economic conditions--1933-1945--Drama.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--1933-1945--Drama.
- Genre:
- Short films.
- Documentary films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (194 min.) : mono sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Hat Creek, CA : Film Preservation Associates : Image Entertainment, [distributor], [1999]
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby Digital.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Our daily bread (King Vidor 1934) is a depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by King Vidor. -- The fake newsreels "California Election News #1 and #2 (1934), were secretly produced by MGM as "dirty tricks" in the film industry's political war against Upton Sinclair. -- The River (Pare Lorentz 1937) dramatizes the stripping of the Mississipi River basin and the effort to restore this region. -- The Plow that broke the plains (Pare Lorentz 1936) focuses on the ecological and human tragedy of the Dust Bowl. -- Power and the Land (Rural Electrification Administration), elevates the photogenic Parkinson family to iconic figures of Americana. -- The New Frontier is a government documentary.
- Contents:
- Prologue to Our daily bread
- Our daily bread
- New Deal documentaries
- The plow that broke the plains
- The river
- Power and the land
- The new frontier.
- Participant:
- Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper, John Qualen, Addison Richards.
- Credits:
- Photography, Robert Planck; recording, Vinton Vernon; dialogue, Joseph Mankiewicz ; editing, Lloyd Nosler ; music, Alfred Newman.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture made in 1934, and other short films produced in the 1930s.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Fithian Tatem Memorial Fund.
- Contains:
- Prologue to Our daily bread.
- New Deal documentaries.
- Plow that broke the plains.
- River.
- Power and the land.
- New Frontier.
- OCLC:
- 45809586
- Publisher Number:
- 014381467123
- ID4671DSDVD Image Entertainment
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