The World of Carl Sandburg
- Series
- NET Playhouse
- Series
- Festival
- Episode Number
- 37
- Episode Number
- 17
- Episode
- The World of Carl Sandburg
- Producing Organization
- Kroll Productions
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/512-4f1mg7gk53
- NOLA Code
- NFWS
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- Description
- Episode Description
- A television production of "The World of Carl Sandburg" as originally presented on Broadway. The production features Uta Hagen, Fritz Weaver and the singing group, The Tarriers (Clarence Cooper, Eric Weissberg, and Al Dana), plus folk singer Carolyn Hester. The production consists of recitations of Carl Sandburg's poetry and prose as synthesized and organized by Norman Corwin with appropriate musical interpolations from Sandburg's "American Songbag."2028The staging is informal including settings which symbolize well-known aspects of Sandburg -- "a chair he would sit in if he were here; he would strum this guitar and the books are what is published of his writing." The recitations are from his novel Remembrance Rock, The People, Yes a collection of "psalms, memoranda, sayings and yarns, " and Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln. The subjects touched upon capture the range of Sandburg's writings; they include such various topics as babies, advice to the young, marriage, observations on glass, snakes and bugs, happiness, love and hate, arithmetic, war, the reminiscences of a former slave, jokes jokes about country folk, jokes about having the last word, goofyisms, jokes about women, sociological jokes -- stories about Lincoln and Lincoln's speech to his friends upon leaving Springfield.2028A recording of Sandburg himself reading a poem called "Phizzog" is played while Steichen's portrait of Sandburg is supered. The songs sung by The Tarriers and Carolyn Hester are: "I was Born Almost Ten Thousand Years Ago," "Go To Sleep, Little Baby," "Love, Oh Love, Oh, Careless Love," "Im Gonna Lay Down My Sword and Shield," "Theres a Man Goin Roun, "A Hundred Years is a Very Long Time," "and Bym, By." The World of Carl Sandburg was produced for National Educational Television by Kroll Productions. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Episode Description
- 1 hour piece produced by Kroll Productions originally shot on videotape. This aired as Festival episode 37 on June 3, 1966 and as NET Playhouse episode 17 on January 27, 1967.
- Broadcast Date
- 1967-01-27
- Broadcast Date
- 1966-06-03
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Performance
- Topics
- Music
- Literature
- Rights
- Copyright National Educational Television & Radio Center June 3, 1966
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Director: Browning, Kirk
Performer: Weissberg, Eric
Performer: Hagen, Uta
Performer: Sandburg, Carl
Performer: Hester, Carolyn
Performer: Dana, Al
Performer: Weaver, Fritz
Performer: Cooper, Clarence
Performing Group: The Tarriers
Producer: Howard, Brice
Producer: Kroll, Nathan
Producing Organization: Kroll Productions
Writer: Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2330465-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2330465-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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- Citations
- Chicago: “The World of Carl Sandburg,” 1967-01-27, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 21, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-4f1mg7gk53.
- MLA: “The World of Carl Sandburg.” 1967-01-27. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 21, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-4f1mg7gk53>.
- APA: The World of Carl Sandburg. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-4f1mg7gk53