# THE RIVER reformatted

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)

- Kind: Short
- Runtime: 31 min
- By: Farm Securuty Administration
- Genres: Documentary
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheRiverReformatted)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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.