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The black press : soldiers without swords
Uniform Title
Black press (Television program)
Title
The black press : soldiers without swords / California Newsreel presents ; directed and produced by Stanley Nelson ; writers, Jill Nelson, Stanley Nelson, Lou Potter, Marcia Smith ; Half Nelson Productions, Inc.
Publication
[San Francisco, CA] : California Newsreel, [1998]
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 86 min.)) : sound, color with black and white sequences.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1998, released in January, 1999; broadcast on PBS on February 8, 1999.
Camera, Bobby Shepard, Rick Butler ; editor, Lewis Erskine ; music, Ron Carter ; writers, Jill Nelson, Stanley Nelson, Lou Potter, Marcia Smith ; associate producer, director of research, Valerie Linson
In English.
Sundance Film Festival, Freedom of Expression Award, 1999
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Archival footage and interviews trace the history of African American newspapers and journalism from the Antebellum period to the Civil Rights Movement.
Variant and related titles
ASP-AVON OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 03, 2021
Credits
Camera, Bobby Shepard, Rick Butler ; editor, Lewis Erskine ; music, Ron Carter ; writers, Jill Nelson, Stanley Nelson, Lou Potter, Marcia Smith ; associate producer, director of research, Valerie Linson
Performers
Narrator: Joe Morton ; commentary by historians and journalists: Jane Rhodes, Vernon Jarrett, Phyl Garland, Christopher Reed, James Grossman, Earl Calloway, Patrick Washburn, Timuel Black, Edward Robinson, George Barbour, Robert R. Lavelle, Charles Harris, Vera Jackson, Frank E. Bolden, Edna Chappell McKenzie, John Sengstacke, Evelyn Cunningham.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Contents
Black press overview (2:02)
Too long have others spoken for us (14:43)
Standing up for the race (26:06)
Separate world (16:13)
Treason? (12:55)
Putting itself out of business (12:49)
Credits: The black press: soldiers without swords (1:15).
Subjects
Genre/Form
Nonfiction films.
Interviews.
Internet videos.
Historical films.
Feature films.
Biographies.
Documentary films.
History.
Documentary films.
Historical films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Half Nelson Productions, Inc., production company.
California Newsreel (Firm), presenter, publisher.
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