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The Plow that broke the plains

Title
The Plow that broke the plains [motion picture] / U. S. Resettlement Administration.
Publication
Washington : National Audiovisual Center, 1936.

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Additional Authors
  • Lorentz, Pare.
  • United States. Farm Security Administration.
Description
1 film reel (21 min.) : sd. b&w.; 16 mm.
Summary
A classic social documentary on the history of the Great Plains from the time of the settlement of the prairies by cattlemen and farmers through the World War I boom to the years of depression and drought.
Subject
  • Agriculture
  • Great Plains > Social conditions
Credits (note)
  • Director and writer, Pare Lorentz; photography, Paul Strand, Leo Hurwitz, Ralph Steiner, Paul Ivano; narrator, Thomas Chalmers; music, Virgil Thompson.
Title
The Plow that broke the plains [motion picture] / U. S. Resettlement Administration.
Imprint
Washington : National Audiovisual Center, 1936.
Credits
Director and writer, Pare Lorentz; photography, Paul Strand, Leo Hurwitz, Ralph Steiner, Paul Ivano; narrator, Thomas Chalmers; music, Virgil Thompson.
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Lorentz, Pare.
United States. Farm Security Administration.
Branch Call Number
M16 1188 P
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