Two by Pare Lorentz
By: writer and director, Pare Lorentz.
Contributors: Lorentz, Pare.; Chalmers, Thomas.; United States. Farm Security Administration.; Facets Multimedia, Inc.
Publisher: Facets Multimedia
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Format: Videorecording
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Mississippi River.; Mississippi River Valley.; Great Plains -- Economic conditions.; Great Plains  -- Social conditions.
Other titles: The River ; The Plow that broke the plains 
Description: The River traces the history of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and shows the consequences of sharecropping, soil exhaustion, unchecked erosion, and flooding. The Plow that broke the plains traces the social and economic history of the Great Plains from the settlement of the prairies through the World War I boom to the years of depression and drought.
Notes: Title from container.

Originally issued as motion pictures by the U.S. Farm Security Administration in 1937 and 1936 respectively.

Thomas Chalmers.

Does not include public performance rights

This tape does NOT have captions or subtitles.
Table of contents: title: The River (32 min.); title: The Plow that broke the  plains (25 min.).