Short31 min640×480

THE RIVER reformatted

Farm Securuty Administration

Documentary

At the Internet Archive

Clips are not offered for this film: a public-domain mark that nothing bears out (no year, or a year no US term has left).

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered. Open it at the Internet Archive.

About

This item has been reformatted from a 1GB MPEG2 file found elsewhere at IA.

The award-winning documentary on the Mississippi River which emphasizes the devastating floods caused by clear-cut logging and poor farming practices. The background score is by the noted American composer Virgil Thomson.

Directed by Pare Lorentz. Released in 1938. Complete print.

AWARDS: Venice Film Festival, best documentary feature (1938)

Human-made No record of this work says a model made it. What this means.

Archive
Internet Archive, in Short films
Licence or status
Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.
Credit
Farm Securuty Administration
Who can watch
The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed