# 1995 A& E Bio Kellogg Brothers

Anecdote time: In 1994, on the heels of the film, "The Road to Wellville," I received a call from a researcher at the A&E Network, asking if I had any information about the Kellogg Brothers and their cereal story. They had tried nearly every route to the information in Battle Creek and nobody was returning their calls. I appeared on a contact list because of a play I had written for the Michigan Radio Players the year before, featuring an imagined radio interview with Dr. John Harvey Kellogg in 1931. A studio version of the play ran on NPR locally, and it apparently made its way on a pre-internet database. I was the only one willing to chat, from all indications. The call lasted about three hours. Over the next several months we exchanged documents, photographs, and videos (the phonograph playing the exercise record is one in my collection), along with connections to other area folks willing to talk to them. They then came to Battle Creek for two days of interviews (unscripted ones, by the way - we didn't see the questions beforehand), and mine was scheduled to follow the one from a Kellogg Company representative, who kept delaying his brief appearance from mid morning to late afternoon, and that moved things for Duff Stoltz and me to the point where we both wound up meeting in Duff's museum, in the original cereal factory site, by the very late afternoon, to save set-up time. We were all exhausted. They then went back to New York to piece all the bits together, there were…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1995
- By: Animating Apothecary Archives
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/1995-a-e-bio-kellogg-brothers)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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