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Free Show Tonite (1983) Watch the trailer Comment on Youtube. Academy award winning filmmaker Paul Wagner and folklorist Steve Zeitlin produced this 1983 oral history of the old-time traveling medicine show performers, with a recreated medicine show staged in a small North Carolina town.
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Watch the entire film at Folkstreams. Academy award-winning filmmaker Paul Wagner and folklorist Steve Zeitlin produced this 1983 oral history of the old-time traveling medicine show performers, with a recreated medicine show staged in a small North Carolina town.
Free Show Tonite documents a final performance by an authentic medicine show, one of the many types of traveling entertainments that were so much a part of 19th and 20th century America. In a small town in central North Carolina, a troupe of old-time med show performers congregate for one last show.
Before we made Free Show Tonite, we did a film on street criers at a market in Washington, D.C., at the Northeast Crab Market where a white crier and black crier used to try and sell crabs and fish down by the docks, right near our offices, in fact.
Free Show Tonite documents the last old time medicine show. Surviving performers from the medicine and minstrelsy heyday were reunited for a two day event in North Carolina, circa 1982. Many devotees of old time music will notice some things they’ve only read about.
3 de jun. de 1985 · Free Show Tonite: Directed by Paul Wagner, Steve Zeitlin. With Roy Acuff, Sam Pridgen, Homer Sherrill, Guitar Slim.
