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Title

Lorraine Hansberry: the Black experience in the creation of drama [video] / produced and written by Ralph J. Tangney.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, c1975.

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Additional Authors

• Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965.
• McNeil, Claudia
• Tangney, Ralph J.
• Films for the Humanities (Firm)

Description

1 videodisc (35 min.) : sd., b&w; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Traces the artistic growth and vision of the black playwright Lorraine Hansberry, largely in her own words and in her own voice. Describes the author's childhood in Chicago, student days at the University of Wisconsin, work as a journalist in Harlem, life as a housewife in Greenwich Village, and success on Broadway.

Alternative Title

Black experience in the creation of drama.

Subjects

• Biographical films
• African American women authors > Biography
• Women authors, American
• Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965

Credits (note)

• Narrator, Claudia McNeil; producer and writer, Ralph J. Tangney; consultant, Robert Nemiroff.

Performer (note)

• Ruby Dee, Frank Perry, Al Freeman, Jr., Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Melanie Moore, Roy Scheider.

Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-1010

OCLC

NYPG98-F42

Title

Lorraine Hansberry: the Black experience in the creation of drama [video] / produced and written by Ralph J. Tangney.

Imprint

Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, c1975.

Cast

Ruby Dee, Frank Perry, Al Freeman, Jr., Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Melanie Moore, Roy Scheider.

Credits

Narrator, Claudia McNeil; producer and writer, Ralph J. Tangney; consultant, Robert Nemiroff.

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Added Author

Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965.

McNeil, Claudia, narrator.

Tangney, Ralph J. Producer

Films for the Humanities (Firm)

Added Title

Black experience in the creation of drama. [video]

Research Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-1010 Service copy.

Sc Visual VRA-216 Service copy.