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1) King Vidor
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Vidor recounts his early days in Texas, his years at the birth of Hollywood, and his rise through the MGM Studios to become a prominent film director.
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Our daily bread (King Vidor, 1934) is a depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by King Vidor -- The fake newsreels "California Election News #1 and #2 (1934), were secretly produced by MGM as "dirty tricks" in the film industry's political war against Upton Sinclair -- The River (Pare Lorentz, 1937) dramatizes the stripping of the Mississipi...
3) Street Scene
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This 1931 adaption of Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning play presents a vivid, complex, and dramatic look at tenement life in New York. The New York Times described the play as "the finest wrought chiaroscuro of middle-class life that an American dramatist has drawn across the stage." The film features a notable score by Alfred Newman.