This documentary is about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled farming destroyed the soil and led to the Dust Bowl.
The film was sponsored by the United States government (Resettlement Administration) to raise awareness about the New Deal and was intended to cost $6,000 or less; it eventually cost over $19,000 and Lorentz, turning in many receipts written on various scraps of paper, had many of his reimbursements denied and paid for much of the film himself.
This is very fascinating. How true it is, I don't know. Did farming cause the dust bowl, or was weather and environment a factor? We haven't had any repeats, so it seems like there was something of a perfect storm that can be blamed or this.
The film was sponsored by the United States government (Resettlement Administration) to raise awareness about the New Deal and was intended to cost $6,000 or less; it eventually cost over $19,000 and Lorentz, turning in many receipts written on various scraps of paper, had many of his reimbursements denied and paid for much of the film himself.
This is very fascinating. How true it is, I don't know. Did farming cause the dust bowl, or was weather and environment a factor? We haven't had any repeats, so it seems like there was something of a perfect storm that can be blamed or this.