biography
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| lived:
| (1905–92)
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| biography:
| Documentary film-maker, born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA. A journalist and film critic, he became the film adviser to the US Resettlement Administration under President Franklin Roosevelt, for which he wrote and directed two classic documentaries, The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937). As head of the new US Film Service, he made The Fight for Life (1940), and in 1941 he made some short subjects for RKO, then some documentaries for the military in World War 2. In 1946–7 he was chief of the film section of the War Department's Civil Affairs Division. |
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