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- Title
WOODY GUTHRIE THE COLUMBIA AND THE B.P.A. DOCUMENTARY: HYDRO.
- Authors
Menig, Harry
- Abstract
The article reports that in 1966, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Stuart L. Udali, presented the Department's Conservation Service Award to America's best known ballad maker, Woody Guthrie. Secretary Udall spoke in honor of Woody Guthrie's outstanding contributions to the preservation of America's human and natural resources. Even Secretary Udall does not specifically mention that Woody Guthrie provided music for a documentary film "The Columbia," (1949), which depicted the construction of the Bonneville Dam complex in the Pacific Northwest. The goal of this article will be to fill in this historical gap by reporting the details of Woody Guthrie's little known film efforts for the Bonneville Power Administration. Most people are familiar with Guthrie's famous ballad, "This Land is Your Land," in which he patriotically celebrates that "From California to the New York Island--From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters--This land was made for you and me." Few, however, realize that Woody Guthrie did more than sing about the beauties of the American landscape.
- Subjects
UNITED States; GUTHRIE, Woody, 1912-1967; SINGERS; DOCUMENTARY films; MUSIC; BALLAD (Literary form)
- Publication
Film & History (03603695), 1975, Vol 5, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0360-3695
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/flm.1975.a487228