A short film from the American folk revival's early years, built around Pete Seeger and his banjo as a guide into rural music traditions. Seeger plays and narrates, tracing the instrument's history and its place in work songs, ballads, and square dances, with square dancing and communal music-making shown as living practice rather than museum pieces. Woody Guthrie appears alongside him, part of the same circle of musicians who spent the 1940s trying to document and popularize songs they saw as America's actual folk heritage before radio and records flattened them out. The film has the plain, instructional tone typical of the era's educational shorts, but its real value is archival: real footage of Seeger decades before Newport and Vietnam-era protest fame, playing music as a young enthusiast rather than an icon. It runs short and simple, closer to a filmed lesson than a narrative documentary, but it captures a specific moment in American folk music's rediscovery of itself.