The Big City

The Big City

  • Overview
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Status

Released

Runtime

0h 24m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

The Big City

Production Companies

Charles Guggenheim & Associates

Director

Charles Guggenheim

Description

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.