The Great American Footrace
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- Contributing Organization
- Vision Maker Media (Lincoln, Nebraska)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/508-sf2m61cj57
- Description
- Facing scorching temperatures, 19-year-old Andy Payne, a small-town Cherokee boy, takes home the gold after winning a grueling 3,422-mile foot race designed to bring attention to the newly constructed Route 66 Highway. The race recounted in this Emmy-nominated film became one of the wildest promotion schemes in history, allowing Andy to win enough money to marry his girl and keep the family farm.
- Asset type
- Program
- Creator
- Bigbee, Dan, Producer
- Shangreaux, Lilly, Producer
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 0:56:46
- Citation
- Chicago: “The Great American Footrace,” Vision Maker Media, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WGBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 21, 2018, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_508-sf2m61cj57.
- MLA: “The Great American Footrace.” Vision Maker Media, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WGBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 21, 2018. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_508-sf2m61cj57>.
- APA: The Great American Footrace. Boston, MA: Vision Maker Media, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WGBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_508-sf2m61cj57