While the Tide Was Rising Omnibus : Season 1 Episode 12

A visit with artist Thomas Hart Benton, his daughter Jessie and his guest Claude Rains, Benton reads from "Huckleberry Finn" and Rains recites Carl Sandburg poetry; movie theaters of the silent era are featured with a showing of the 1914 film "While the Tide Was Rising;" a segment of the Roberto Rossellini film "The Flowers of Saint Francis" (1950) is show; The Benny Goodman Trio performs.