The City (1939)
A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.
Directors: Willard Van Dyke, Ralph Steiner.
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Morris Carnovsky as Narrator (voice) |
| Directing | Willard Van Dyke | Director |
| Directing | Ralph Steiner | Director |
| Camera | Roger Barlow | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Willard Van Dyke | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Ralph Steiner | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Henwar Rodakiewicz | Writer |
| Writing | Pare Lorentz | Writer |
| Sound | Aaron Copland | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Rudolph Bretz | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Edward Anhalt | Camera Operator |
| Production | Oscar Serlin | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Henwar Rodakiewicz | Associate Producer |
| Production | John Flory | Production Manager |
| Editing | Theodore Lawrence | Editor |
| Writing | Lewis Mumford | Writer |
| Sound | Max Goberman | Conductor |