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5.7This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental destruction committed in the name of progress, particularly farming and timber practices and their impact on impoverished farmers.
Released: 1938-02-0431 minDir: Pare LorentzDocumentary
Cast
- Thomas Chalmers as Narrator (Voice)
Themes
- mississippi river
- river
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- short film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Award
- film award
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- agriculture
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Director
- Pare Lorentz
- Screenwriter
- Pare Lorentz
- Composer
- Virgil Thomson
- Cinematographer
- Stacy Woodard
- Duration
- 32
- Image
- The River 1938.png
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- described at URL
- www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1267530%7C0/The-River.html
- publication date
- 1937-00-00
- title
- The River
- distributed by
- Paramount Pictures
- narrator
- Thomas Hardie Chalmers
- musical conductor
- Alexander Smallens
- produced by
- Farm Security Administration
- color
- black-and-white
- work available at URL
- hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.00101008
- inventory number
- F389
- copyright holder
- Pare Lorentz
- inception
- 1937-00-00
- place of publication
- Washington, D.C.
- language of work or name
- English language
- Commons category
- The River (1938 film)
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