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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.
Aug 18, 2015 · 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...
- 42 min
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- travelfilmarchive
The City, with its blend of the sharply-focused journalistic and the unexpectedly lyrical abstract, opened at the 1939 New York City World's Fair and ran there for two years. The patterning in The City suggests the patterning of waves in Steiner's celebrated 1929 abstract film, H2O.
This short documentary film was the idea of Catherine Bauer and produced for the 1939 New York World's Fair as part of the "City of Tomorrow" exhibit.
- 32 min
- 74K
- American Planning Association
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 · Richard Brody reviews “The City,” a 1939 documentary about the ills of modern metropolises and the alleged benefits of planned communities.
The short 1939 documentary The City is a “plea” for residential planning and presents ways to remold cities to better accommodate the demand for housing and the need for clean, healthy communities. The film follows the chronological development of American communities, beginning with rural New England circa 1800, opening with shots of old ...
