The City

Director: Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke
1939, 43 mins
The Greenbelt Museum presents: The City – FREE!
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.