The Creative Person: The Folksinger (1965)

The Creative Person: The Folksinger

1965

Music Documentary

Synopsis

Three of the top folksinger-composers - Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Buffy Sainte-Marie - are featured here. These are the new "city" folksingers whose songs are strictly topical, commenting on the political and social issues of the day. Pete Seeger, an earlier singer in a similar tradition, talks about what the younger singer-composers are attempting to do and about their forerunners, such as Woody Guthrie and Aunt Molly Jackson.

Credits

Director

Carroll Williams

Cast

Buffy Sainte-Marie as Self

Pete Seeger as Self

Phil Ochs as Self

Tom Paxton as Self

Crew

Bob Cosner (Associate Producer)

Joan Swayze (Editor)

Lewis Core (Editor)