Preceded by short: The City (Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke, U.S., 1939). Lewis Mumford puts forth the decentralized "greenbelt" community as an alternative to the city's ills, but with an Aaron Copeland score, and the personal touch of director/photographers Steiner and Van Dyke, ironically the centerpiece of the film is its delightfully satiric depiction of Manhattan life that amounts to a celebration. (43 mins, B&W, mm, From ) ------------------(Berlin, Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt). How times change. The great "city symphonies" of the silent era celebrated the pulsating life of the streets. Berlin was the joint effort of Carl Mayer, the expressionist scenarist; Karl Freund, the great cameraman; and Walther Ruttmann, at the time an abstract filmmaker. For all its basis in reality-capturing a late spring day in the capital, from dawn to midnight-it was conceived as an abstract work of art, rigorously organized to musical principles. The filmmakers wandered the city for over a year, filming from high buildings, in tunnels and sewers, popularizing Dziga Vertov's kino-eye technique in a film that was shown around the world.