The Forgotten Village

The novelist who wrote <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i> and the director who produced <i>Crisis </i>and <i>Lights Out in Europe</i> combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration but <i>The Forgotten Village</i> is unique among them in that Steinbeck wrote the text before a single picture was shot. The book and the movie from which <i>The Forgotten Village</i> was made have a continuity and a dramatic growth not to be found in typical documentary films of the time. <p/> From this wealth of pictures 136 photographs were selected for their intrinsic beauty and for the graceful harmony with which they accompany Steinbeck's text. This new script-photograph technique of narration conveys its ideas with unexcelled brilliance and immediacy. In the hands of such master storytellers as Steinbeck and Kline it makes the reader catch his breath.