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The Big City

For the citizen whose tax dollar runs The Big City. This is the story of what he buys.

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 24M

Director : Charles Guggenheim

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Crews

Charles Guggenheim
Charles Guggenheim
Director
Charles Guggenheim
Charles Guggenheim
Writer
Richard Hefferon
Richard Hefferon
Producer
Victor Duncan
Victor Duncan
Camera Operator