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About the Pare Lorentz Film Center“…When a documentary film maker commissions original music for a production, he is following Lorentz’s lead. When he shows what man has done to nature and what nature does to man in retaliation, he is moving in the Lorentz tradition. When he combines a dramatized story with factual material, he is following the trail Lorentz blazed…” Robert L. Snyder, Pare Lorentz and the Documentary Film The Pare Lorentz Film Center’s mission is to apply audiovisual techniques to teaching the history the Roosevelt era. Located at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, the center is funded by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute through a generous grant from the New York Community Trust. Pare Lorentz (1905-1902) created groundbreaking documentary films—a powerful synthesis of stunning imagery, poetic narration, and evocative music—for the US Resettlement Administration, the USDA Farm Service Administration (FSA), and The US Film Service.
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