Film
The Big City
24m · Documentary
For the citizen whose tax dollar runs The Big City. This is the story of what he buys.
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Overview
St. Louis’s annual report to taxpayers. The Big City visually illustrated how tax dollars were put to good use and was considered a “graphic, fluent and compact documentary” by Howard Thompson. Note: Sixteen prints were made for exhibition by schools, civic organizations, and church groups. For more on the filmmaker, see Shelby Coffey III, “Politics as an Art Form: Guggenheim and the Movies,” Washington Post, Feb. 9, 1969, 262.
Crew
- Charles GuggenheimWriter · Director
- Richard HefferonProducer
Details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 24m
- Genres
- Documentary
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