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The Plow That Broke the Plains

United States

1936

25 Min
Black and White
English
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DIR Pare Lorentz

SCR Pare Lorentz

DP Leo Hurwitz, Ralph Steiner, Paul Strand, Paul Ivano

CAST Thomas Chalmers

ED Leo Zochling

MUSIC Virgil Thomson

SOUND Joseph I. Kane

Melbourne (New Horizons)

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msmichel

26Jan12

Short documentary made in 1936 for the government that far surpasses its orginal intent. A brief but informative take on the transformation of the grasslands between 1880 and 1935. From Indian land populated with the buffalo, to the early settling years combating drought, to the 'new deal' years and the prosperity of the WW1 years and finally the dust bowl drought period which found the land being abandoned.

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By Chuck Vollers on February 26, 2011

Pare Lorentz’s 1936 short doc about the Dust Bowl, partially funded by FDR’s Resettlement Administration. Beautifully photographed, remarkably put together for a film made by a first-time director…  read review

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