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...Lorentz here listed a number of men and women, among them prominent physicians, who saw the picture in Chicago, Manhattan and elsewhere...
...PARE LORENTZ...
...Fight for Life is a grueling picture to watch. Possibly women should not see it at all. Pare Lorentz made it from Paul de Kruif's book, The Fight for Life. In The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River, Lorentz showed the effects of human waste and abuse on U. S. soil, forest and water resources. In The Fight for Life he shows the human waste caused by eclampsia, infection, hemorrhage-the three great killers of women in childbirth. Because childbirth kills oftenest where poverty is greatest, The Fight for Life was shot in a slum clinic...
Outside shooting was done in & around Chicago. Lorentz kept an old station wagon prowling through the slums, filming tenements, children at play in traffic, people grubbing refuse from garbage dumps behind decaying buildings. Sometimes the camera was tilted from tenement roofs...
...actors Lorentz took Dudley Digges, Myron McCormick, Storrs Haynes, Will Geer, Dorothy Adams, Dorothy Urban, Effie Anderson. He taught them to act as if they were not acting, got them to behave as if they belonged at the clinic. Two of his men studied at the Center to qualify as clinicians. For some of the delivery shots Lorentz used the clinic's pregnant patients. One worked with him for four hours, then went home and had her baby...