When I was working at WGBH-TV in Boston, Pete Seeger came to do a show. He had with him some film and audiotape that had been made of Leadbelly playing. If I remember correctly, it had been done by a Japanese team. Unfortunately, the people who had done the production did not know anything about crystal sync so there was terrible drift between the picture of Leadbelly playing and the recording of the music. Seeger had spent a lot of frustrating hours on an editing machine trying to sync picture and sound. I think he gave up and we didn't use the footage. I wonder if this is that same footage. Pete Seeger had said that this was the only motion picture with sound of Leadbelly playing. The editors tried very hard to help out but the drift was more than they could handle and the footage never looked very good. It would be nice to think that modern technology made it possible to save the footage.

Sourdough