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The films of Pare Lorentz.
LIBRA PN1997.A1 L67 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--United States.
- Physicians.
- History.
- Childbirth.
- Pregnancy.
- United States.
- Pregnancy--United States.
- Childbirth--United States.
- Great Plains--History.
- Great Plains.
- Mississippi River--History.
- Mississippi River.
- Mississippi River Region.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Los Angeles] : International Documentary Association, [between 2000 and 2009]
- System Details:
- DVD-R
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- The plow that broke the plains traces the social and economic history of the Great Plains from the settlement of the prairies through the World War I boom to the years of depression and drought. The river is a Depression-era documentary which chronicles the exploration and exploitation of the Mississippi River from the Civil War through the 1920s. The fight for life is a documentary on the struggle of a young doctor against disease and death during pregnancy and childbirth in a city slum.
- Contents:
- The plow that broke the plains (1936)
- The river (1938)
- The fight for life (1940).
- Participant:
- Cast of The fight for life: Myron McCormick ; Storris Haynes ; Will Geer ; Dudley Diggs ; Dorothy Adams ; Dorothy Urban ; Effie Anderson.
- Credits:
- The plow that broke the plains: written and directed by Pare Lorentz ; photograhy by Ralph Steiner, Paul Strand, Leo Hurwitz and Paul Evans ; edited by Leo Zockling ; music by Virgil Thomson ; narrator, Thomas Chalmers. The river: written and directed by Paul Lorentz ; photography by Stacy Woodard, Floyd Crosby and Willard Van Dyke ; edited by Leo Zockling and Lloyd Nosler ; music by Virgil Thomson ; narrator, Thomas Chalmers. The fight for life: produced and directed by Pare Lorentz ; screenplay by Pare Lorentz ; music by Louis Gruenberg.
- Notes:
- This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
- Bonus feature: Pare Lorentz study guide (DVD-ROM).
- Contains:
- Plow that broke the plains
- River
- Fight for life
- OCLC:
- 526749000
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