Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences

Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dramatic re-enactment. The film uses actor John Cullum both as himself and to play the young Sandburg in short dramatic sequences. In search of Sandburg, Cullum travels to the poet's native home, Galesburg, Illinois speaking with close friends and family of the writer. Through a remarkable recently discovered trove of period photographs of Galesburg, the small-town America of Sandburg's childhood - the horse carriages, the ice-man delivering ice, a Fourth of July celebration - is revived in vivid detail.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Documentary,

Drama

Duration:

119 minutes

Year:

1982

Director:

Perry Miller Adato

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Company:

PBS,

Thirteen

Cast:

Carl Sandburg

Mother / Lilian Steichen

Father / Hobo

Self (voice) (archive footage)

Crew:

Executive Producer

Editor

Writer

Director of Photography

Producer