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'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. 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.

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

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