The Big City

THE BIG CITY. (1956, sound, 25min, b&w, 16mm)

Sponsor: City of St. Louis. production Co.: Charles Guggenheim & Associates. director/Writer: Charles Guggenheim. producer: richard Hefferon. Camera: Victor duncan. Music: St. Louis Symphony orchestra. resources: Copyright not registered; “St. Louis taxpayers Get Film report,” Am City 71 (June 1956): 16–18; Howard thompson, “new Arrivals in the 16mm Field,” NYT, June 9, 1957, 125. Holdings: LC/prelinger.

St. Louis’s annual report to taxpayers. The Big City visually illustrated how tax dollars were put to good use and was considered a “graphic, fluent and compact documentary” by Howard Thompson. note: Sixteen prints were made for exhibition by schools, civic organizations, and church groups. For more on the filmmaker, see Shelby Coffey III, “Politics as an Art Form: Guggenheim and the Movies,” Wash Post, Feb. 9, 1969, 262.

THE BIG CITY. (1956, sound, 25min, b&w, 16mm) Sponsor: City of St. Louis. production Co.: Charles Guggenheim & Associates. director/Writer: Charles Guggenheim. producer: richard Hefferon. Camera: Victor duncan. Music: St. Louis Symphony orchestra. resources: Copyright not registered; “St. Louis taxpayers Get Film report,” Am City 71 (June 1956): 16–18; Howard thompson, “new Arrivals in the 16mm Field,” NYT, June 9, 1957, 125. Holdings: LC/prelinger. St. Louis’s annual report to taxpayers. The Big City visually illustrated how tax dollars were put to good use and was considered a “graphic, fluent and compact documentary” by Howard Thompson. note: Sixteen prints were made for exhibition by schools, civic organizations, and church groups. For more on the filmmaker, see Shelby Coffey III, “Politics as an Art Form: Guggenheim and the Movies,” Wash Post, Feb. 9, 1969, 262.