This 16mm program is presented by local film archivist Dennis Nyback. A
fascinating and offbeat look at hobo culture and freight hoppers. Films
feature a history of American trains, a quirky 1939 cartoon “The Hobo
Gadget Band” that inspired the film “Brother Where Out Thou”, a hobo
comedic short from 1920 with hobo lingo intertitles, Borrah Minevitch
& His Harmonica Rascals doing “Boxcar Rhaposody” as well as a
performance by labor organizer, folk singer, historian, storyteller,
poet, and the “Golden Voice of the Great Southwest” Utah Phillips in
the 1977 film “Hobo at the End of the Line”. Plus newsreel footage of
freight train riders from the Great Depression. Dennis Nyback will
also tell stories of his train hopping days and welcome questions and
comments, with hopes other freight train riders will share their
stories.