The Big City

For the citizen whose tax dollar runs The Big City. This is the story of what he buys.

The Big City — Plot

St. Louis’s annual report to taxpayers. The Big City visually illustrated how tax dollars were put to good use and was considered a “graphic, fluent and compact documentary” by Howard Thompson. Note: Sixteen prints were made for exhibition by schools, civic organizations, and church groups. For more on the filmmaker, see Shelby Coffey III, “Politics as an Art Form: Guggenheim and the Movies,” Washington Post, Feb. 9, 1969, 262.

• Runtime
• 24 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Charles Guggenheim