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...Government went into the movie business with a bang by producing three superb documentary films in four years. In 1936 came The Plow That Broke the Plains, in 1937 The River, in 1940 The Fight for Life. All three were directed by Pare Lorentz. The first dealt with the dust bowl, the second with flood control, the third probed childbirth mortality in U. S. slums. Even captious critics granted that its 69 minutes of clinical realism established Pare Lorentz as No. 1 U. S. director of documentary films...
...group which made The Plow and The River was organized as the U. S. Film Service with Pare Lorentz as its head. Unlike other New Deal agencies, the U. S. Film Service never asked Congress for spending money. In March the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Bill came before the House of Representatives. Its total of $1,021,639,700 contained an item requesting $106,400 to continue the U. S. Film Service after June 30. Before they paid out, legislators proposed to find out what they were paying for. They learned that...
...Bliss's score for H. G. Wells's Things To Come has had concert performances (TIME, July 17). Some U. S. films, most of them documentary, have owed much to music of this sort. Virgil Thomson, long an expatriate, did wonders with a small orchestra for Pare Lorentz' The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River. Last year Aaron Copland contributed a lean, muscular musical commentary to The City. This year his music for Of Mice and Men was cut closer to Hollywood's measure...
...MEMBERS OF THE DAYTON OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY AND SO OTHER DAYTON PHYSICIANS AND THEIR WIVES PROVOKED ONLY ENTHUSIASTIC PRAISE. DAYTON OBSTETRICIANS HAVE ASKED FOR PRINT OF PICTURE FOR TEACHING OF INTERNS, RESIDENT PHYSICIANS AND NURSES. DESPITE HOLLYWOOD RESISTANCE VIA BLOCK BOOKING STRANGLEHOLD AND DESPITE ANTAGONISM OF A FEW DOCTORS THE LORENTZ-DE KRUIF PICTURE WILL INEVITABLY ACCOMPLISH THE TWO PURPOSES FOR WHICH IT WAS MADE. IT WILL SAVE LIVES OF MOTHERS AND BABIES AND IT WILL PROVIDE THE INTELLIGENT ADULT WITH ONE HOUR AND EIGHT MINUTES OF A THRILLING EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE WHICH HE OR SHE WILL LONG REMEMBER...
...Producer Lorentz, congratulations for making 68 minutes seem so short. To the women who can take it, congratulations...