The forgotten village, : with 136 photographs from the film of the same name, / by Rosa Harvan Kline and Alexander Hackensmid; story by John Steinbeck.
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.
