Our daily bread : and other films of the Great Depression

Authors:David Shepard (Film producer), Karen Morley (Actor), Tom Keene (Actor), Barbara Pepper (Actor), Addison Richards (Actor), John Qualen (Actor), King Vidor (Screenwriter, Film director), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Screenwriter), Elizabeth Hill (Screenwriter), Robert Planck, Irving G. Thalberg (Producer), Pare Lorentz (Screenwriter, Director), Joris Ivens (Director), Edwin Allen Locke (Screenwriter), John H. Caufield (Screenwriter), H. B. McClure (Director), Thomas Chalmers (Narrator), Stephen Vincent Benét (Screenwriter), William P. Adams (Narrator), Morse Salisbury (Narrator), Viking Productions, United States Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Film Preservation Associates, Image Entertainment (Firm)

Summary:Our daily bread: 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 David Shepard. California election: Two fake newsreels used as conservative propaganda to paint the End Poverty in California's supporters as sluggardly, indecisive radicals as opposed to the respectable intelligent idealists of Republican incumbent Frank Merriam's camp. Secretly produced by MGM and Irving Thalberg. The plow that broke the plains: A visualization of the settlement and landscape changes to the Great Plains. The river: A record of the Mississippi River. Power and the land: Designed to convince American farmers of the necessity for rural electrification through farm cooperatives. Shows a dramatization of a family on an Ohio farm revealing the hardships of life on a non-electrical farm contrasted with the benefits brought by electricity. The new frontier: Shows how pioneers create a new community