The Forgotten Village

The Forgotten Village is a 1941 American documentary filmsome sources call it an ethnofiction filmdirected by Herbert Kline and Alexander Hammid. The film was written by John Steinbeck, narrated by Burgess Meredith, and with music by Hanns Eisler. The film was released by the film distribution partnership of Arthur Mayer amp Joseph Burstyn.

A restored version of the film was released in 2011. The film was restored by the UCLA Film amp Television Archive, funded by the Packard Humanities Institute.The new print was made from the original 35mm nitrate picture and soundtrack negatives from the Stanford Theatre Foundation Collection and a 35mm nitrate fine grain master positive from MOMA. ........

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