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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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- 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
- work available at URL
- hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.00101008
- inventory number
- F389
- inception
- 1937-00-00
- Commons category
- The River (1938 film)
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Mississippi River
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Categories
1938 American films1938 films1938 short documentary filmsAmerican black-and-white filmsAmerican short documentary filmsBlack-and-white documentary filmsDocumentary films about agriculture in the United StatesDocumentary films about disastersFilms directed by Pare LorentzTemplate film date with 1 release dateUnited States National Film Registry filmsWorks about the Dust Bowl