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| Directed by | Pare Lorentz |
| Written by | Pare Lorentz |
| Cinematography | Floyd Crosby Willard Van Dyke |
| Distributed by | Farm Security Administration |
| Release date(s) | February 4, 1938 |
| Running time | 31 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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The River (1938) is a short documentary film which shows the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States, and how farming and timber practices had caused topsoil to be swept down the river and into the Gulf of Mexico. It was written and directed by Pare Lorentz and, like Lorentz's earlier documentary The Plow That Broke the Plains, was also selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", going into the registry in 1990. The two films were sponsored by the U.S. government and specifically the Resettlement Administration (RA) to raise awareness about the New Deal. The RA was folded into the Farm Security Administration in 1937, so The River was officially an FSA production.
See also
External links
- The River at the Internet Movie Database
- The River (part 1) and (part 2) at The Internet Archive (missing part 3)
- Pare Lorentz
- The River
