The City

Duration: 0:44:00

Creator: American Documentary Films

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Dramatizes the transformation of the United States from a country of small towns and simple industry to an urbanized, highly industrialized society in 1939. Documents the congested city of 1939 through scenes of traffic jams, pollution, people eating on the run, and children playing in the streets. Offers planned suburban areas, which would be connected to the center of the city by a network of rapid highways, as an alternative to the crowded city and as places where people could enjoy a sense of community again. Musical score by Aaron Copeland., A documentary showing life in an old New England village, the overcrowded life in New York City, and life in a planned community. Points out problems of city planning and describes desirable conditions of living in small planned suburban areas. , Dramatizes the transformation of the United States from a country of small towns and simple industry to an urbanized, highly industrialized society in 1939. Documents the congested city of 1939 through scenes of traffic jams, pollution, people eating on the run, and children playing in the streets. Offers planned suburban areas, which would be connected to the center of the city by a network of rapid highways, as an alternative to the crowded city and as places where people could enjoy a sense of community again. Musical score by Aaron Copeland.

Complete Record: , A documentary showing life in an old New England village, the overcrowded life in New York City, and life in a planned community. Points out problems of city planning and describes desirable conditions of living in small planned suburban areas. , Dramatizes the transformation of the United States from a country of small towns and simple industry to an urbanized, highly industrialized society in 1939. Documents the congested city of 1939 through scenes of traffic jams, pollution, people eating on the run, and children playing in the streets. Offers planned suburban areas, which would be connected to the center of the city by a network of rapid highways, as an alternative to the crowded city and as places where people could enjoy a sense of community again. Musical score by Aaron Copeland.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.