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1939

The City

Directed by Willard Van Dyke

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.

Duration

0h 44m

Released

May 26, 1939

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5.8

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  • Morris Carnovsky

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