The Forgotten Village
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Directed by | Herbert Kline Alexander Hammid |
Produced by | Alexander Hammid Herbert Kline |
Screenplay by | John Steinbeck |
Story by | John Steinbeck |
Narrated by | Burgess Meredith |
Music by | Hanns Eisler |
Cinematography | Alexander Hammid |
Edited by | Herbert Kline |
Distributed by | Arthur Mayer & Joseph Burstyn |
Release dates
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9 September 1941 (NYC) 18 November 1941 (US) |
Running time
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67 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English Spanish |
The Forgotten Village is a 1941 American documentary film—some sources call it an ethnofiction film—directed by Herbert Kline and Alexander Hammid. The film was written by John Steinbeck, narrated by Burgess Meredith, and with music by Hanns Eisler. The film was released by the film distribution partnership of Arthur Mayer & Joseph Burstyn.
The New York State Board of Regents, acting as the state's board of censors, banned the film in New York due to the film's portrayal of childbirth and showing a baby at its mother's breast.[1]
The film depicts the conflicts between traditional life in a Mexican village, and outsiders who want to introduce modernization.
Cast
- Burgess Meredith - Narrator
Restoration / re-release
A restored version of the film was released in 2011. The film was restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, funded by the Packard Humanities Institute.[2]
The new print was made “from the original 35mm nitrate picture and soundtrack negatives from the Stanford Theatre Foundation Collection and a 35mm nitrate fine grain master positive from MOMA.”[2]
The restoration premiered at the UCLA Festival of Preservation on March 14, 2011[2] and was screened at other North American cities in 2011 including Vancouver.[3]
See also
References
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External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Forgotten Village at IMDb
- The Forgotten Village is available for free download at the Internet Archive
- The Forgotten Village at AllMovie
- The Forgotten Village informational site at The Steinbeck Institute
- The Forgotten Village complete film on YouTube
- Pages with reference errors
- Articles with Internet Archive links
- 1941 films
- 1940s documentary films
- American documentary films
- American films
- Black-and-white documentary films
- English-language films
- Ethnofiction films
- Films based on works by John Steinbeck
- Films set in the 1940s
- Social realism in film
- Spanish-language films
- Films directed by Alexandr Hackenschmied