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''The City'' is a pioneering short documentary film from 1939 that contrasts the problems of the contemporary urban environment with the superior social and physical conditions that can be provided in a planned community. It was directed and photographed by Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke based on a treatment by Lewis Mumford based on an outline by Pare Lorentz. Aaron Copland wrote the musical score and Morris Carnovsky provided the narration. ==Summary== The film follows a historical sequence and uses the following locations: #In the Beginning – New England (a rural 18th-century community) #The Industrial City – City of Smoke (Pittsburgh) #The Metropolis – Men into Steel (Manhattan) #The Highway – The Endless City (Sunday traffic congestion in New York and New Jersey) #The Green City (Greenbelt, Maryland, and Radburn, New Jersey) Greenbelt, Maryland, had been constructed a few years earlier as a New Deal project. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The City (1939 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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