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GUEST,Bob Baldwin	Help: 40's or early 50's folk documentary fil (7)	40's or early 50's folk documentary film	16 Jul 00
Back in about 1953, I saw a b&w documentary about American folk music with footage of Woody Guthrie, Pete, Brownie McGee and Sonny Terry, and traditional southern musicians. Maybe Hobart Smith or Bascom Lamar Lunceford. It had a kind of a lame title like "Banjo-picking Boy" but it had some great sequences. The most memorable ones, for me, were Woody, Brownie and Sonny playing John Henry and a boyish looking Seeger and others -- probably Almanac-ers - on a street corner singing "Round and Round Old Hitler's Grave" to the tune of "Old Joe Clark" Does anybody know anything about this film and whether anyone has made it available in a video format?

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