Pare Lorentz

After a brief, unfruitful stint as a producer and director at RKO in Hollywood, Lorentz made over 200 short training films for the armed forces during WWII and oversaw the production of film, music and theater for re-education programs in the occupied countries after the war. He held two more government posts before setting up shop as a New York-based producer of commercial and industrial films in 1947, and lecturing on documentary filmmaking on the college circuit.