American Album; 15; Toby and the Tall Corn
- Series
- American Album
- Episode Number
- 15
- Episode
- Toby and the Tall Corn
- Producing Organization
- Ford Foundation. TV-Radio Workshop
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/516-tb0xp6w465
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- Description
- Episode Description
- This film, "Toby and the Tall Corn," introduces the viewer to an old-time traveling tenet show setting up in the Midwest. It is called the "Toby and Susie Show" and viewers see the show set up in each town, the local kids helping to erect the tents, various actors in the show doubling as publicity men and salesmen for ads. Russell Lyons does both voiceover and on-camera narration and interviews Neil Schnaffer who is the current head of the show. The tent show includes melodrama and olio acts, built for the entertainment of the farmers in the corn states. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- This series consists of 23 films from the Omnibus series and is a gift from the Ford Foundation's TV-Radio Workshop. The subject material of the series is varied but basically the viewer of "American Album" leafs through random film comments and portraits on interesting people and places and things American. Films range in time length from eight minutes to thirty-three minutes and have been arranged into 15 episodes originally recorded on film. These include five films on the life of Lincoln, a number of outstanding films in the arts and literature and a group of films on people ranging from "A Maine Lobsterman" to "Boyhoods: Joseph N. Welch" and "Raymond Loewy." (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1956-00-00
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Local Communities
- Media type
- other
- Credits
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Interviewee:
Schnaffer, Neil
Interviewer: Lyons, Russell
Narrator: Lyons, Russell
Producing Organization: Ford Foundation. TV-Radio Workshop
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- Citations
- Chicago: “American Album; 15; Toby and the Tall Corn,” 1956-00-00, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 5, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-tb0xp6w465.
- MLA: “American Album; 15; Toby and the Tall Corn.” 1956-00-00. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 5, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-tb0xp6w465>.
- APA: American Album; 15; Toby and the Tall Corn. 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-tb0xp6w465