Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men (1940)
1940 · Short film · 28 min · dir. Willard Van Dyke
- Documentary
Synopsis
A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Willard Van Dyke
- Writer
- Spencer Pollard
- Composer
- Marc Blitzstein
- Cinematography
- Robert B. Churchill
- Studio
- Educational Film Institute of New York University, Documentary Film Productions
- Released
- 1940-08-04
- Running time
- 28 minutes
Cast & crew
Willard Van Dyke Director
Ray Collins
Herbert Rudley- Olive Stanton
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · No peace in the valley here · Spuzz · 2015-03-23
Pretty much your standard The factory is closing, look at all the displaced people! film here, but theres some nice flourishes here and there. All the people in the film are not supposedly actors, and some of them are really good. Especially the woman playing the wife, who sings her lines mostly (!!), and some footage, which Im positive Ive seen before of a smokestack coming down. And again, weve got multiple angles of it. So hmm, where did this come from? Im almost positive it came from a business film of some sort. It would have been interesting to find out whether the management people…
