Friday 8 February 2019

Mississippi problems


The River (1938)

Directed by Pare Lorentz this is a short documentary. We see the great Mississippi river and how it fits into the lives of the people living around it.

Essentially a government information film this film shows how human activity damaged the environment and the plans to fix it. Not very deep but clear and well laid out this is not a bad watch. Very much in the vein of Lorentz's earlier The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936).

3/5

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