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Riding the Rails
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Tells the story of the 250,000 teenagers who left their homes and hopped freight trains during the Great Depression.
Title:
Riding the rails
[videorecording (DVD)]
[videorecording (DVD)]
Alternate Title:
American experience (Television program)
Additional Contributors:
Imprint:
[Boston, Mass.] : - WGBH Boston Video
ISBN:
1578079756, 9781578079759
Language:
English
Credits:
Director of photography, Samuel Henriques ; music by Jimmie Rodgers, Doc Watson, Woody Guthrie, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Elizabeth Cotten ; editor, Howard Sharp ; Original music by Jay Sherman-Godfrey.
Notes:
DVD features: Interview with the filmmakers ; slide show featuring Depression-era photos.
An edited version of "Riding the rails" was broadcast on the PBS television program American experience.
DVD.
Closed captioned.
An edited version of "Riding the rails" was broadcast on the PBS television program American experience.
DVD.
Closed captioned.
Statement of responsibility:
WGBH Boston Video presents an Out of the Blue production ; a film by Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell ; produced, directed and written by Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell
Characteristics:
1 videodisc (72 min.) :,sd., col. ;,4 3/4 in.
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Add a CommentYou say recession, I sat depression, lets just call the whole thing off! If you could get a today 16 year old who can't find a job to sit down some rainy Sunday afternoon and look at a few clips of this, it'd serve its purpose. I found it an illuminating window into the world of some people I've known who lived during this time - and THAT time, too.
FIVE STARS ,....The insight into the adventure of 'budget ' travel is good ,but... This film gave me more realistic awareness about the true nature of the Great Depression than I have found from any other source that have ever seen or read ! !... Definately a MUST SEE for any history buff.
Wonderful stories of people's lives. I have always wished I could hop a train!!! This movie showed me the adventure, but that I never would have made it. Took a very special type. I admire them.