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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First New Deal documentary film was last year's The Plow that Broke the Plains. Like The Plow, The River was conceived and produced by Cinemacritic Pare Lorentz (McCall's, Vanity Fair), who had sold both ideas to Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell before Tugwell left the Brain Trust for the molasses business. Sponsor of the finished film is the Farm Security Administration, successor to the Resettlement Administration in the Department of Agriculture...
...Pare Lorentz, a West Virginian, at 36 is senior among nationally-known cinema critics. He made The Plow that Broke the Plains for $12,000 to enter the U. S. in the documentary film field, then had to get out and distribute it to independent exhibitors, the big companies having turned thumbs down on it, presumably because it represented government-in-the-movie-business. The River cost just short of $50,000, took a six-man crew six months on a 22,000-mile tour of the Mississippi valley. Just when the camera work seemed finished, in January, came...
...time San Franciscans had heard the great tetralogy in years, the third time they had ever heard it. Faces fell when the directors announced that Bodanzky would not return this season, that plump, pleasant Fritz Reiner would succeed him. Know-it-alls began to gossip that Reiner planned to pare down expenses and substitute cheaper instruments for the prescribed tub en quartet, the indispensable bass trumpet. In London last summer Reiner quietly persuaded Philadelphia's Mrs. Curtis Bok to lend him four tuben and a bass trumpet, had them shipped to San Francisco, hired four members of the Oakland...
...eight more months in jail. The hatred and fear roused in French Tories by the prospect of Socialist Leon Blum's Government last week served thrifty Paris socialites as an excuse to cancel big weddings and balls "to avoid provoking the Reds." Wealthy children in Paris' swank Pare Monceau marched around chanting derisively: "Blum! Blum! Blum...
History. Government departments, notably that of Agriculture, have made many a dull, amateurish film to be shown to school children. To Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell's Resettlement Administration nearly a year ago went Cinema Critic Pare Lorentz (Judge, McCall's) with an idea: Let the U. S. Government, heretofore backward in using the cinema, make a really good picture of the history of the Great Plains, showing how part of it became a dread "Dust Bowl" and how the Resettlement Administration was trying to rehabilitate its farmers. Critic Lorentz sold his idea, was at once chosen to direct...