The new frontier / a Federal Emergency Relief Administration picture ; subject matter, John H. Caufield ; direction, H.B. McClure ( c1934, 11 min.) A prologue to our daily bread / [presented by] David Shepard ( c1983, 5 mins.) -- California election news #1 and #2 / produced by Irving Thalberg ( 1934, 14 min.) -- The plow that broke the plains / written and directed by Pare Lorentz ( c1936, 26 mins.) -- The river / written and directed by Pare Lorentz ( c1937, 32 mins.) -- Power and the land / directed by Joris Ivens ; script, Edwin Locke ( c1940, 38 mins.) -- The new frontier / a Federal Emergency Relief Administration picture ; subject matter, John H. Caufield ; direction, H.B. McClure ( c1934, 11 min.)
Summary:
Our daily bread (1934) is a landmark of socially conscious films, produced and directed by King Vidor...This deeply personal work was rejected by the studios, nor could Vidor obtain bank financing for a film reflecting unfavorably on banks. In the end her mortgaged his home and most of his possessions to finance Our Daily Bread, which was released by United Artists at the insistence of its partner and Vidor's friend. Charlie Chaplin. The film advocates a back to the land lifestyle for dispossessed urbanites : it was inspired by the actual cooperative pictured in The New Frontier, a government documentary also included on this DVD. The finale of Our Daily Bread, which depicts digging an irrigation ditch, is one of the classic sequences in all of American cinema.
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