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Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s pragmatic New Deal Program aimed to put US citizens back on their feet and back to work, and also included an innovative and lively public arts program designed to provide economic relief and jobs for artists of all walks.
With Nelson Algren, James Brooks, Howard Da Silva, Will Geer. The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency established to support writers, theater people, painters, sculptors, and photographers.
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- Documentary
- Wieland Schulz-Keil
- 1976-09-08
May 17, 2021 · On the 40 th anniversary of its original broadcast on German television and PBS, “New Deal for Artists,” written and directed by Wieland Schulz-Keil. is being rereleased in a new digitally remastered version. Studs Terkel himself, in classic finger-wagging mode, opens this Orson Welles-narrated film exhorting the viewer to absorb the ...
- Neely Swanson
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 ...
The New Deal for Artists featuring Orson Welles is streaming with subscription on Hoopla, streaming with subscription on Kanopy, and free on Tubi. It's a documentary movie with a better than average IMDb audience rating of 7.3 (18 votes).
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- Orson Welles
- Wieland Schulz-Keil
May 21, 2021 · 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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Barbara Becker Sound. Critics reviews. The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency established to support writers, theater people, painters, sculptors, and photographers.
