1 hour piece, produced by NET and initially distributed by NET in 1968. It was originally shot on videotape in black and white. About half of this hour-long program of tribute to the late poet Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) consists of the memorial service held for him on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on September 17, 1967. Eulogies delivered by President Johnson and poets Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren at this event will be included in the program. The Main body of the memorial service will be interspersed with performances out of Carl Sandburg's works by an actor-narrator (still to be announced), and with recorded readings by the poet himself. The works read will be illustrated visually by montages and other animated sequences of still photographs, mainly the famous photographs of Sandburg taken by his brother-in-law Edward Steichen. Steichen has generously contributed his entire collection of photographs of Carl Sandburg to the NET project. There will be other photographs illustrating the mood of the works being read, including Mathew (correct Spelling) Brady's famous photographs of Lincoln and the Civil War Period. In the program the actor will read the whole of the poems "Chicago," "Skyscraper," and "Paula," an extract from the poem "Prairie," one extract from the poem "The People Yes," and an extract from Volume One, "The Prairie Years," of his Lincoln biography. Sandburg will be heard reading the whole of the poems "Primer Lesson," "Prairie Waters by Night," "Buffalo Dusk," and "Expectations of Love," an extract from "The people yes," and an extract from "The War Years," Volume Two of his Lincoln biography. He also sings two songs from his "American Song Book"; "There's a Man Going Round" and "Bird in a Cage." NET Festival - "Carl Sandburg Remembered" is a National Educational Television Production. Producer: David Loxton. Washington sequences produced by WETA, Washington. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) NET Festival is an anthology series of performing arts programming.
