Our World: All Shook Up, Autumn 1957ABC
December 18, 1986
Documentary
VHS
B
Co-hosts and co-writers Linda Ellerbee and Ray Gandolf made this too short-lived show a thought-provoking little gem then and now. The series offered a mini-documentary each week, focusing on a specific time period, sometimes just a few days, or here a whole season. I wish I'd been able to tape more episodes, but the reruns stopped airing soon after my boyfriend bought a VCR. This particular episode is of course about a time that was then about as many years ago as have passed since. It looks at the major occurrences of that fall: from Little Rock and Sputnik to Edsel and American Bandstand. It's most interesting to see the interviews of people who were part of these stories, how Governor Faubus still stood by what he did, and how Little Richard threw his jewelry in the ocean after hearing about Sputnik.
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