Leo Zochling

Movies

The Golden Twenties
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Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
The River
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This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental destruction committed in the name of progress, particularly farming and timber practices and their impact on impoverished farmers.
The Plow That Broke the Plains
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A documentary about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled farming destroyed the soil and led to the Dust Bowl.
Soak the Rich
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Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.
Sweet Surrender
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Anti-war propaganda musical set on an ocean liner.
Midnight
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Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair. Restoration by the Academy Film Archive and Blackhawk Films with funding from the estate of David Shepard from a 35mm nitrate duplicate negative and 35mm nitrate fine grain in the Lobster Films collection.