The River
This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental destruction committed in the name of progress, particularly farming and timber practices and their impact on impoverished farmers.
Top Billed Cast
Thomas Chalmers
Narrator (Voice)
Featured Crew
Pare Lorentz
Writer
Pare Lorentz
Director
Virgil Thomson
Original Music Composer
Albert Dillinger
Sound
Henry Brant
Orchestrator
Alexander Smallens
Conductor
A.A. Mercey
Researcher
Leo Zochling
Editor
Lloyd Nosler
Editor
Floyd Crosby
Director of Photography
Stacy Woodard
Director of Photography
Willard Van Dyke
Director of Photography