Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman (1988)
Walt Whitman was the first major poet to create a truly American vision and style. His extraordinary example gave American verse much of its subsequent character and diction. Rejecting traditional constraints of form and subject matter, Whitman considered democracy itself appropriate grist for his own poetic mill, inventing a radically different sort of free verse to express what he had to say.
Director: Jack Smithie
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Peter MacNicol as Narrator |
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Louis Turenne as Walt Whitman |
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Galway Kinnel as The Voice of the Poet |
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Allen Ginsberg as Self |
| Directing | Jack Smithie | Director |
| Editing | Peter Hammer | Editor |
| Editing | Mark Rappaport | Editor |
| Crew | Lloyd Freidus | Cinematography |
| Crew | Robert Fulton | Cinematography |
| Art | Sandra Nathanson | Art Direction |