American Thanksgiving

Duration: 20

Genre: Educational | Historical

Year Published: 1954

Creator: Teaching Film Custodians

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Traces the evolution of the Thanksgiving celebration from the early New England harvest festival into a national holiday. Examines the relationships of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln to the observance of the holiday. Shows the holiday being observed by a family in the mid-fifties., Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of a Cavalcade of America television series episode, "American Thanksgiving" (season 3, episode 6), which originally aired November 23, 1954 on ABC-TV. This film traces the evolution of the American Thanksgiving celebration from an early New England harvest festival into a national holiday. Examines the relationships of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln to the observance of the holiday. Shows the holiday being observed by a family in the mid-1950's.

Complete Record: Traces the evolution of the Thanksgiving celebration from the early New England harvest festival into a national holiday. Examines the relationships of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln to the observance of the holiday. Shows the holiday being observed by a family in the mid-fifties., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.