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To tell the truth : a history of documentary film. Episode 2, Working for change / produced by Lumiere Productions ; director, Calvin Skaggs ; executive producers, Calvin Skaggs, David Van Taylor.
LIBRA DVD 026 411
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Documentary films--Production and direction--History.
- Documentary films.
- Social movements--United States--History.
- Social movements.
- History.
- Documentary films--Production and direction.
- United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
- United States.
- Economic conditions.
- Grierson, John, 1898-1972.
- Grierson, John.
- Social movements--Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
- Great Britain.
- Economic history.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- History.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color, black-and-white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- History of documentary film
- Working for change
- Title on container: To tell the truth : working for change : documenting hard times (1929-1941)
- Working for change : documenting hard times (1929-1941)
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Icarus Films, 2013.
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD format; Region 0.
- digital optical Dolby Digital Plus
- video file DVD video all regions
- Summary:
- Explores the birth of the social documentary, featuring interviews with several of the people who helped define and shape the form. A detailed history of documentary filmmaking in the US and the UK from 1929 to 1941 focused on the social movements of the times, The Great Depression, The New Deal, and the awakening of the Leftwing in the UK.
- Contents:
- The Great depression
- Immediacy & truth
- New deal filmmaking
- The UK & John Grierson
- 'Coal face' & 'Night mall'
- The radical leftwing
- Frontier films.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Alec Baldwin.
- Credits:
- Series producer, Ali Pomeroy ; editor, Cindy Kaplan Rooney ; music, Teese Gohl ; camera, Joel Shapiro, Michael Miles ; graphics and animation, Paul Docherty ; funding provided by National Endowment for the Humanities, Art Works, and The Nathan Cummings Foundation.
- Notes:
- Part of a six program series on the history of documentary filmmaking.
- Originally produced in 2012.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- OCLC:
- 869316509
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