Walt Whitman
2008 · 109 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · DIR. Mark Zwonitzer
Overview
This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,590 lines
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00:00:08 Captioning sponsored by the ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION,
00:05:05 Never more the cries of unsatisfied love
00:09:48 clerks, counting houses,
00:13:30 to just see and absorb New York.
00:17:16 the smell of New York is overpowering.
00:21:40 NARRATOR: By 1847, within a few years of his arrival in New York,
00:25:27 of New Orleans.
00:30:05 By 1855, an armed battle had already commenced
00:34:06 and there's a little space
00:38:13 dressed in formal dress,
00:44:20 "the globe lay preparing quintillions of years
00:48:39 of literary America, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
00:52:42 "I am with you
00:57:39 And Whitman put on a show.
01:01:26 the heterosexual white guys who are writing
01:05:43 speeding swiftly the country roads
01:09:32 of a lot of the poems.
01:13:55 to look on faces of the dead,
01:17:42 ,
01:21:38 and he would give them candy, and he would give them treats,
01:26:40 "I do not give out.
01:31:04 that the Civil War is the very heart and the center
01:35:39 worn with sweat.
01:43:10 and:
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Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,590
Dialogue density14.6 lines / min
First line00:00:08
Final line01:43:10
Production Record
DirectorMark Zwonitzer
LanguageEnglish
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