This begins by giving the scenario of the government hiring a film maker to make a documentary of Hurricane Katrina after it happed, blaming the people of the land and showing it across the country, He relates this to the federal government hiring Pare Lorentz to make the documentaries The Plow That Broke The Plains and The River about the Dust Bowl and the Mississippi River flooding. It talks about the support of the FSA and other New Deal agencies. He says photographers portray people as blameless, while Lorentz refused to see them as natural disasters and based his conclusion off of the science of climax community. It then talks about him using wide angle lenses to portray the vastness of the grasslands. It also mentions his use of
