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Wigwam (Shining Ray) The Bridge Breakers Rain We Are Building Philips Radio Creosote Komsomol (Song of Heroes) New Earth Borinage The Spanish Earth The 400 Million Power and the Land Indonesia Calling The First Years Song of the Rivers The Seine Meets Paris Before Spring Italy Is Not a Poor Country Travel Notebook A Valparaiso The Mistral Pour le Mistral Far from Vietnam The 17th Parallel How Yukong Moved the Mountains A Tale of the Wind Magnitogorsk, Forging the New Man		Creosote Creosoot 1932 / The Netherlands / silent / B&W / 80 min / 35mm Directors: Joris Ivens, Jean DrŽville Script, Editor: Joris Ivens Camera: Jean Dréville, Eli Lotar, John Fernhout Production company: CAPI AmsterdamÊ Commissioned by: Continentale Commissie voor de Propagering van Creosootolie Ivens was commissioned by a group of international creosote manufacturers to make an instructional film on the mining and use of creosote, a substance obtained from coal tar and used to preserve wood. The Continental Committee for the Propagation of Creosote already had a tightly constructed plan for the film, from which Ivens made a solid scientific film on the production of creosote, which included some animated sequences made by the Culture Department of UFA in Berlin. A TOPICS A Bird's Eye View of a Documentary Career HELEN VAN DONGEN Kees Bakker beforenext COPYRIGHT:Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee