Summary
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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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 61GoodWatch 61
Letterboxd · 695 ratings3.2/5
IMDb5.9
Running time
44 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −52 min on the typical 96
typical 9644Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Released
1939
May 26, 1939
87 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United States
Directing · 2
- Willard Van Dyke Director, Director of Photography
- Ralph Steiner Director, Director of Photography
Writing · 3
- Lewis Mumford Writer
- Pare Lorentz Writer
- Henwar Rodakiewicz Writer, Associate Producer
Production · 2
- Oscar Serlin Production Supervisor
- John Flory Production Manager
Camera · 3
- Edward Anhalt Camera Operator
- Roger Barlow Camera Operator
- Rudolph Bretz Camera Operator
Editing · 1
- Theodore Lawrence Editor
Sound · 2
- Aaron Copland Original Music Composer
- Max Goberman Conductor
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