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The City. (1939 film) The City is a pioneering short documentary film from 1939 that contrasts the problems of the contemporary urban environment with the superior social and physical conditions that can be provided in a planned community. It was directed and photographed by Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke based on a treatment by Lewis ...
The City: Directed by Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke. With Morris Carnovsky. 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.
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- Documentary, Short
- Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke
- 1939-05-26
Aug 26, 2020 · “The City,” directed and filmed by Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke, is the brainchild of Catherine Bauer, an urbanist who, as the most prominent of the “housers,” argued for affordable ...
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In style and content, The City (1939), co-directed by Willard Van Dyke and Ralph Steiner, was a convergence point for several of the strongest currents pulsing through the art world. Ever since Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922), arguments have raged about just what documentaries are.
and Willard van Dyke, were both veterans of the American avant-garde and the broader cultural Left: Steiner had devoted much time to the peripatetic Workers Film and Photo League in the early 1930s, while van Dyke was a founding member of Group f/64 alongside Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Imogen Cunningham. Both filmmakers had worked
Willard Ames Van Dyke (December 5, 1906 – January 23, 1986) was an American filmmaker, photographer, arts administrator, teacher, and former director of the film department at the Museum of Modern Art.
