Direction: Ralph Steiner

Direction Ralph Steiner

Plot A study on water, the reflections and motions of the liquid that accentuates its ethereality and metallic beauty.

Direction Ralph Steiner

Plot Close up we see pistons move up and down or side to side. Pendulums sway, the small parts of machinery move. Gears drive larger wheels. Gears within gears spin. Shafts...

Direction Ralph Steiner · Willard Van Dyke

Plot A commercial for the Works Progress Administration.

Direction Ralph Steiner

Plot Look Park presents close up shots of a country stream viewed in bright sunlight. The film opens with wide shots of the park to establish the location of the water,...

Direction Ralph Steiner

Cast Russell Collins · Elia Kazan · Elman Koolish · Irving Lerner

Plot At a skid row mission, a cleric opines as men wait to eat. After his sermon, he brings out a pie and cuts it into small slices. The two men...

Direction Ralph Steiner · Willard Van Dyke

Cast Morris Carnovsky

Plot Visionary documentary that contrasts the conditions of life in small towns and in the industrialized cities, starting with a brief portrait of pre-industrial United States, then moving into the modern...

Direction Ralph Steiner

Plot Shoreline images: first small breakers and the swirls they leave, then water running up the shore on a sandy beech, then water hitting pebbles and rocks. The second half is...