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6.0A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.
Released: 1939-05-2644 minDir: Willard Van DykeDocumentary
Cast
- Morris Carnovsky as Narrator (voice)
Themes
- social commentary
- urban planning
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- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Willard Van Dyke
- Composer
- Aaron Copland
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- publication date
- 1939-01-01
- title
- The City
- color
- black-and-white
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The New York Times
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International Standard Book Number
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IMDb
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John Ruskin
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Library of Congress
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documentary film
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suburb
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Internet Archive
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New Deal
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Museum of Modern Art
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Aaron Copland
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twelve-tone technique
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Lewis Mumford
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National Film Registry
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Greenbelt
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serialism
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neoclassicism
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Ebenezer Howard
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1939 New York World's Fair
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Our Town
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Categories
1939 American films1939 compositions1939 English-language films1939 films1939 New York World's Fair1939 short documentary filmsAmerican black-and-white filmsAmerican short documentary filmsBlack-and-white documentary filmsCity symphonyDocumentary films about cities in the United StatesEnglish-language short documentary filmsFilms directed by Ralph SteinerFilms directed by Willard Van DykeFilms scored by Aaron CoplandGreenbelt, MarylandTemplate film date with 1 release dateUnited States National Film Registry filmsWorld's fair films