Roosevelt, New Jersey: visions of Utopia

Duration: 52

Year Published: 1983

Creator: Lumen

Format: 16mm

Color: Color & B&W

Sound: sound

Description: During the Great Depression, 120 families of Jewish garment workers from New York City moved to the countryside of Central New Jersey to participate in a government-sponsored agro-industrial cooperative community. This documentary film explores the history of that experiment through the memories of the original cooperators and their children.