USA: Poetry; 14; In Search of Hart Crane
- Series
- USA: Poetry
- Episode Number
- 14
- Episode
- In Search of Hart Crane
- Producing Organization
- National Educational Television and Radio Center
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/516-cv4bn9z24k
- NOLA Code
- UPTR
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Through the memories of living friends and associates, and a presentation of some of his poems, the life and work of the great American poet Hart Crane is evoked. Among the participants are Samuel Loveman, Isidore Schneider, Sue Brown, Charmion von Wiegand, Malcolm Crowley, Waldo Frank, Gorham Munson, Slater Brown, and Peggy Baird. From his birth near Cleveland in 1899 to his death by suicide (leaping from the deck of the Orizaba ship off the coast of Cuba) in 1932, Hart Crane was variously a copy writer for J. Walter Thompson, a resident of Brooklyn Heights, and author of The Bridge, White Buildings and many unpublished poems issued after his death. He is acclaimed by many critics as Americas leading 20th Century poets and the inheritor of the tradition of Whitman. USA: Poetry - In Search of Hart Crane is a National Educational Television production. 90 minute episode. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- USA: Poetry consists of 14 half-hour episodes produced by KQED and initially distributed by NET in 1966. They were originally shot on filmUSA: Poetry is part of an assessment of the state of the literary arts in the United States, which concentrates on contemporary poets, with the opening episode on the late William Carlos Williams serving as an introduction to programs that follow. The 14 half-hour episodes that comprise the series were originally recorded on film.
- Broadcast Date
- 1966-09-18
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Performance
- Documentary
- Topics
- Literature
- Biography
- Rights
- Published Work: This work was offered for sale and/or rent in 1972.
- Copyright National Educational Television & Radio Center September 18, 1966
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Camera Operator: Kirschheimer, Manny
Director: Hurwitz, Leo T., 1909-1991
Guest: Schneider, Isidore
Guest: Frank, Waldo
Guest: Crowley, Malcolm
Guest: von Wiegand, Charmion
Guest: Brown, Sue
Guest: Loveman, Samuel
Guest: Munson, Gorham
Guest: Brown, Slater
Guest: Baird, Peggy
Narrator: Merrill, Gary
Producer: Davis, Curtis W., 1928-1986
Producer: Hurwitz, Leo T., 1909-1991
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
Production Assistant: Eliscu, Peter
Sound: Bradshaw, Peggy
Writer: Hurwitz, Leo T., 1909-1991
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Identifier: [request film based on title] (Indiana University)
Format: 16mm film
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- Citations
- Chicago: “USA: Poetry; 14; In Search of Hart Crane,” 1966-09-18, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 6, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-cv4bn9z24k.
- MLA: “USA: Poetry; 14; In Search of Hart Crane.” 1966-09-18. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 6, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-cv4bn9z24k>.
- APA: USA: Poetry; 14; In Search of Hart Crane. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-cv4bn9z24k