English · 1938 · 31 min

The River

Pare Lorentz’s 1938 government picture of the Mississippi: forests cut, soil lost, and the river answering in flood. A spoken essay with real places, made for the public.

Source

Pare Lorentz, Farm Security Administration, 1938

Licence

United States government work (public domain)

Why it is here

Produced for the United States government. Public domain. Playback is the Internet Archive copy of the film.