The River

31m
Documentary
5.7

This 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.

Cast

Thomas Chalmers
Narrator (Voice)

Crew

Pare Lorentz
Director, Writer
Lloyd Nosler
Editor
Leo Zochling
Editor
Willard Van Dyke
Director of Photography
Stacy Woodard
Director of Photography
Floyd Crosby
Director of Photography
Albert Dillinger
Sound
Virgil Thomson
Original Music Composer
A.A. Mercey
Researcher
Alexander Smallens
Conductor
Henry Brant
Orchestrator

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