Abstract

In 1934 and 1935, Nancy Naumburg and James Guy independently produced two documentary films under the aegis of the Film & Photo League in New York, Sheriffed and Taxi. The films dealt with farm troubles in Pennsylvania and a taxi drivers' strike in New York, and were photographed by Naumburg, a Vassar graduate, on a 16mm camera she had been given by her mother. Praised for their political commitment, the style of these now lost films was critized from the left for diverging from approved Soviet documentary models.

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