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19 mag 2021 · New Deal For Artists: an unearthed film on how arts funding should work. For its 40th anniversary, the Orson Welles-narrated documentary about Franklin D Roosevelt’s post-depression...
- 2 min
- Charles Bramesco
Narrated by the iconic Orson Welles, THE NEW DEAL FOR ARTISTS, also features a who’s who of 20th Century luminaries including Studs Terkel, John Houseman, Arthur Rothstein, Howard Da Silva, James Brooks, Nelson Algren and more.
- 90 min
The film tracks in turn the four major arts patronized by the New Deal. Photography wound up under the aegis of the Farm Security Administration because Rexford Guy Tugwell, the former Columbia economics professor FDR tapped to lead the agency, and Roy Stryker, the dynamic head of the Historical Section, understood the power of the still image ...
28 mag 2021 · By Alex Greenberger. May 28, 2021 2:50pm. A 1938 WPA mural by Eitaro Ishigaki at the Harlem Court in New York. AP. Until 2020, the Works Progress Administration, a Great Depression–era government...
The New Deal for Artists. A documentary about the Arts Project of the WPA, a program that operated from 1935 through 1943, and aimed to support artists of every kind.
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- Orson Welles, Studs Terkel, John Houseman
- Wieland Schulz-Keil
- May 21, 2021
THE NEW DEAL FOR ARTISTS. United States | 1979 | Wieland Schulz-Keil. Orson Welles narrates this newly remastered history of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration, a USA government agency (established in 1935) that supported writers, theater people, painters, sculptors, and photographers during the Great Depression.
5/21/2021—5/30/2021. The New Deal for Artists. Special Online Screening. Support cutting-edge film programs. become a member. With the failure of President Herbert Hoover's policies and ensuing Great Depression, Americans were desperate for help. FDR's NEW DEAL put the US back to work, and also included special programs to utilize the talents ...
