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  • National Film Preservation Foundation Collection (Library of Congress)
     
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  • Water resources development -- Mississippi River Valley.
     
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  • Land use -- Mississippi River Valley.
     
  •  
  • Farmers -- Great Plains -- Economic conditions.
     
  •  
  • Farmers -- Great Plains -- Social conditions.
     
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  • Agriculture and state -- Great Plains.
     
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  • Great Plains -- Economic conditions.
     
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  • Great Plains -- History.
     
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  • Mississippi River -- History.
     
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    The plow that broke the plains [videorecording (DVD)] ; The river.
    Naxos, c2007.
    Call #:DVD 973.917 P732n
    Subjects
  • National Film Preservation Foundation Collection (Library of Congress)
  •  
  • Water resources development -- Mississippi River Valley.
  •  
  • Land use -- Mississippi River Valley.
  •  
  • Farmers -- Great Plains -- Economic conditions.
  •  
  • Farmers -- Great Plains -- Social conditions.
  •  
  • Agriculture and state -- Great Plains.
  •  
  • Great Plains -- Economic conditions.
  •  
  • Great Plains -- Social conditions.
  •  
  • Great Plains -- History.
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  • Mississippi River -- History.
  •  
  • United States -- Rural conditions.
  • Alternate title: 
    The river [videorecording (DVD)].
    Format: 
    [videorecording (DVD)] ;
    Description: 
    1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) : Dolby digital sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 12 cm.
    Notes: 
    Originally issued as motion pictures in 1936 (The plow that broke the plains) and 1938 (The river).
    "Editions used: The plow that broke the plains (G. Schirmer, Inc; The river (Fleisher Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia, The Virgil Thomson Foundation)"--Container.
    Support for this DVD was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts (USA), The American Film Institute, Virgil Thomson Foundation (USA), The MARPAT Foundation (USA).
    Home use only.
    Contents: 
    The plow that broke the plains (27 min.) -- The river (32 min.) -- George Stoney on The plow and The river (15 min.) -- Stoney on the New Deal, The river, and race (6 min.) -- Charles Fussell on Virgil Thomson (18 min.) -- Virgil Thomson on Virgil Thomson (audio only)(8 min.) -- The original ending of The plow that broke the plains (4 min.) -- The original beginning of The plow that broke the plains (3 min.).
    Production: 
    Writer/director, Pare Lorentz ; Music, Virgil Thompson.
    Performers: 
    Narrator, Floyd King; soundtracks recreated by Post-Classical Ensemble, Angel Gil-Ordęz, music director, Joseph Horowitz, artistic director.
    Summary: 
    "The plow that broke the plains" depicts the social and economic history of the Great Plains from the settlement of the prairies by cattlemen and farmers through the World War I boom to drought and depression.
    "The river" traces life in the Mississippi River Valley during the previous 150 years, showing the consequences of sharecropping, soil exhaustion, unchecked erosion and floods, and concludes with scenes of regional planning, TVA development and federal efforts.
    Genre: 
    Documentary films.
    Short films.
    DVDs.
    Other authors: 
    Lorentz, Pare.
    Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989.
    Stoney, George C.
    Fussell, Charles.
    King, Floyd.
    Gil Ordez, Angel.
    Horowitz, Joseph, 1948-
    Post-Classical Ensemble.
    Naxos Digital Services.
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