The River (1938 film)
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title:
The River (1938 film)
text:
The River is a 1938 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, leading to catastrophic floods and impoverishing farmers. It ends by briefly describing how the Tennessee Valley Authority project was beginning to reverse these problems. It was written and directed by Pare Lorentz and, like Lorentz's earlier 1936 documentary The Plow T
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1938 documentary film directed by Pare Lorentz
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_(1938_film)
date created:
2002-08-26T14:19:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T17:18:58Z
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