Valley Town

Duration: 0:27:00

Year Published: 1940

Creator: Documentary Film Productions (New York N.Y.) | New York University Educational Film Institute

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: A social documentary on urban poverty during the Great Depression. It is a study of the effects of unemployment on a steelworker's family. Van Dyke's use of non-actors prefigures a similar device used in Italian Neo-Realist films following World War II.

Complete Record: , A social documentary on urban poverty during the Great Depression. It is a study of the effects of unemployment on a steelworker's family. Van Dyke's use of non-actors prefigures a similar device used in Italian Neo-Realist films following World War II. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

2 users have this film:
Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, New York Public Library

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