Pare Lorentz
| Pare Lorentz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 11, 1905 Clarksburg, West Virginia |
| Died | March 4, 1992 (aged 86) Armonk, New York |
| Alma mater |
West Virginia Wesleyan College West Virginia University |
| Occupation | New Deal filmmaker Hollywood film critic |
| Employer | Resettlement Administration |
| Organization | Colonel, U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II |
| Known for | Documentary films about the New Deal, Dust Bowl, Nuremberg trials; World War II War Department films |
| Movement | New Deal |
| Awards |
"Best Documentary", Venice International Film Festival. |
"Best Documentary", Venice International Film Festival.
Pare Lorentz (December 11, 1905 – March 4, 1992) was an American filmmaker known for his movies about the New Deal. Born Leonard MacTaggart Lorentz in Clarksburg, West Virginia, he was educated at West Virginia Wesleyan College and West Virginia University. As a young film critic in New York City and Hollywood, Lorentz spoke out against censorship in the film industry.
As the most influential documentary filmmaker of the Great Depression, Lorentz was the leading US advocate for government-sponsored documentary films. His service as a filmmaker for US Army Air Corps in World War II was formidable, including technical films, documentation of bombing raids, and synthesizing raw footage of Nazi atrocities for an educational film on the Nuremberg Trials. Nonetheless, Lorentz will always be known best as "FDR's filmmaker."
Lorentz left West Virginia after college in 1925, to begin a career as a writer and film critic in New York in 1925. He contributed articles to leading magazines such as Scribner’s, Vanity Fair, McCall's, and Town and Country. and co-authored a 1929 book, Censored: the private life of the movie.
His work as a film critic led him to Hollywood, where he wrote several articles on censorship and a pictorial review of the first year of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, The Roosevelt Year: 1933. Roosevelt was impressed with the articles and the book, and in 1936, as President of the United States, invited Lorentz to make a government-sponsored film about the Oklahoma Dust Bowl.
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