This screening recreates a typical film program of the 1930s, including a period newsreel, a coming attraction trailer, and a vintage black-and-white studio cartoon, followed by one of the masterpieces of American cinema of the period, King Vidor’s Our Daily Bread (1934). Working with a cast that included relative unknowns and eschewing the techniques and gloss of commercial production, Vidor created one of the few films to portray the impact of the Great Depression on working-class Americans.

The program will be introduced by Jenna Webster, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photographs, Fogg Art Museum.