Traveling Hopefully

Traveling Hopefully is a 1982 American short documentary film directed by John G. Avildsen. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short at the 55th Academy Awards.^[1] It focuses on Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. Baldwin tells of how he got interested in civil liberties, and mentions a number of the cases in which the ACLU defended people or entities.

Traveling Hopefully
Directed by	John G. Avildsen
Produced by	Steven Haft
Starring	Roger Nash Baldwin Norman Lear
Music by	Bill Conti
Production company	Arnuthfonyus Films
Distributed by	Films Inc.
Release date	1982 (1982)
Running time	29 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Reaction

Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote "This is an amiable, well-intentioned documentary, but an extremely superficial one".^[2] Also writing in the Times, John J. O'Connor stated that Traveling Hopefully "captures, with warmth, the admirable grittiness of an American original".^[3]