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Overview
This 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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 4, 1938
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Farm Security Administration
- Cast
- Thomas Chalmers
- Director
- Pare Lorentz
- Writer
- Pare Lorentz
- Cinematography
- Willard Van Dyke,Floyd Crosby,Stacy Woodard
- Music
- Virgil Thomson
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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