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Birth of a movement : the battle against America's first blockbuster
Title
Birth of a movement : the battle against America's first blockbuster / Northern Lights Productions presents ; directors, Susan Gray, Bestor Cram ; producers, Bestor Cram, Susan Gray, Matthew MacLean ; writers, Kwyn Bader, Dick Lehr ; a presentation of Northern Lights Productions, in association with Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET
Publication
[Lockport, N.Y.]: Northern Lights Productions, [2017]
Physical Description
1 online resource (55 minutes)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Based on the book by Dick Lehr.
Title from title screen; (viewed September 25, 2023).
Originally produced as a television program in 2017.
Editor, Daniel Mooney ; cinematography, Jesse Beecher, Bestor Dram, Dan Mooney ; original music, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, John Kusiak.
In English.
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Summary
In 1915, civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Includes interviews with Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and DJ Spooky.
Variant and related titles
ASP-AVON. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 26, 2024
Credits
Editor, Daniel Mooney ; cinematography, Jesse Beecher, Bestor Dram, Dan Mooney ; original music, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, John Kusiak.
Performers
Narrated by Danny Glover ; with Vincent Brown, William Jelani Cobb, Dick Lehr, Dolita Cathcart, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ira Gallen, Bob Bellinger, David Blight, Ira Gallen, Herbert Haines, Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, DJ Spooky, Charlie Musser, Charlene Regester, Ellen Scott, Melvyn Stokes.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Documentary television programs
History
Television series
Internet videos.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television adaptations.
Television programs.
Television series.
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Northern Lights Productions, presenter, production company, publisher.
Thirteen Productions, presenter.
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