1. Pare Lorentz was an American filmmaker known for his film work about the New Deal.
12 Facts About Pare Lorentz
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Pare Lorentz left West Virginia University, in 1925, to begin a career as a writer and film critic in New York City.
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Pare Lorentz contributed articles to leading magazines such as Scribner's, Vanity Fair, McCall's, and Town and Country.
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Pare Lorentz co-authored a 1929 book, Censored: the private life of the movie.
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Roosevelt was impressed with the articles and the book, and in 1936, as president of the United States, invited Pare Lorentz to make a government-sponsored film about the Oklahoma Dust Bowl.
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Pare Lorentz made The River, a film celebrating the exploits of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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When Republicans gained seats in Congress in 1938, and the congressional balance of power shifted in a more conservative direction, the pipeline of federal commissions for projects like Pare Lorentz's were halted along with the short-lived existence of the US Film Service, which Pare Lorentz headed.
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Pare Lorentz made a film for RKO Name, Age and Occupation that was never completed.
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Pare Lorentz served in the US Army Air Corps, more specifically the Air Transport Command, accompanied by Floyd Crosby, who became an outstanding cinematographer during World War II.
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Pare Lorentz had ambitious plans to make documentaries about the New Deal and the United Nations, but funding was not available from government or private sources.
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Pare Lorentz lived a quiet life among the country gentry 37 miles north of New York City in the upscale town of Armonk, New York until his death in 1992.
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The Pare Lorentz Center, located at the Franklin D Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York, but with its separate online presence, has links on its website to three films which were posted to YouTube by the FDR Library's account:.