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The New Deal Film Festival: From the Workers Film & Photo Leag
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Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - (Zoom event - Click Registration Button and scroll to bottom of page.)
Curated by AL Stein
Al Stein will lead a discussion about film as art, propaganda and documentary expression in 1930s America, focusing on Pare Lorentz, FDR’s cameraman and his colleagues Ralph Steiner, Paul Strand, Leo Hurwitz, and Willard Van Dyke. Featuring Studs Terkel narrating The Memorial Day Massacre, Woody Guthrie songs and Will Geer (The Waltons) in The Fight For Life (1940)
www.documentary.org/parelorentz
Stein is co-editor of The Great Depression And The New Deal: A Thematic Encyclopedia [2 volumes, ABC-CLIO, 2009]
https://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781598841558/
www.abc-clio.com