The Forgotten Village

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Publisher
the viking press
Released
1941
Pages
143

The Forgotten Village

1941 · Book · John Steinbeck

Social life and customsMœurs et coutumesTraditional medicineSanitationCultureMedical care

The novelist and the director 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 The Forgotten Village is unique among them in that the text was written before a single picture was shot. The book and the movie from which it was made have, thus, a continuity and a dramatic growth not to be found in the so-called "documentary" films by John Steinbeck