The River

31 mins
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.

Thomas Chalmers

Narrator (Voice)

Pare Lorentz

Director

Virgil Thomson

Original Music Composer

Henry Brant

Orchestrator

A.A. Mercey

Researcher

Willard Van Dyke

Director of Photography

Stacy Woodard

Director of Photography

Floyd Crosby

Director of Photography

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