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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		Power and the Land 1941/ USA / B&W / 33 min / 35mm Director: Joris Ivens Script: Joris Ivens, Edwin Locke Camera: Floyd Crosby, Arthur Ornitz Editor: Helen van Dongen Music: Douglas MooreÊ Commentary: William P. Adams (written by: Stephen Vincent Bennet) Production company: U.S. Film Service Commissioned by: U.S. Department of Agriculture In the context of New Deal politics Ivens was commissioned to film the benefits of rural electrification. The film shows the situation before and after the Rural Electrification Administration brought electricity to the farm of the Parkinson family. Although the commentary is a bit over-blown, this documentary is a beautifully poetic film on the development of the American countryside. 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