THE PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS
- 1936
- États-Unis
- 25'
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DR
This first broad-based documentary on the United States – the Great Plains that turned into a “Dust Bowl” due to human over-exploitation – is also a first work, echoing the Soviet and British examples, by Ivens and Flaherty, and has one of the finest film scores of its time.
- Production : Resettlement Administration Film Unit
- Scenario : Pare Lorentz
- Photography : Ralph Steiner, Paul Ivano, Paul Strand, Leo T. Hurwitz
- Music : Virgil Thomson, conducted by Alexander Smallens
- Voice : Thomas Chalmers
- Sound : Joseph Kane
- Research : John Franklin Carter, Jr
- Editing : Leo Zochling
