1968AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE
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Members of Harlem theater rehearse in loft man jumps up and down screaming hysterically and falls to the ground - theater members sing and clap together to gospel recording, actor play fights himself.
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Harlem Theater director and their troupe's approach to acting - "subversive" goal
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| 01:02:17 116.82 |
Shots of Harlem New York Spring 1968 the day after the murder of Reverend Martin Luther King. Fire Trucks on Harlem streets, tenement building on fire - protests in Harlem, firemen leave tenement building in Harlem, onlookers, black Harlem residence on the streets watching the fire, hanging out on Harlem Streets
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| 01:03:56 215.29 |
Radical Harlem theater actors rehearse in loft. Black theater company, load, aggressive movement and screaming as they rehearse, actors jump around subversive theater - actors improvisation : "women take leave of their terrorist group to commit a political assassination"
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| 01:06:22 362.03 |
Harlem theater troupe rehearses, subversive, radical politicized Black Panther era in Harlem
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| 01:08:47 507.01 |
Harlem Theater actors rehearse a scene actress shouts and recites radicalized version of the song "That Old Black Magic" and "Witchcraft", angry radicalized interpretation
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| 01:13:32 791.29 |
Harlem theater actors rehearse a scene in their loft
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| 01:14:14 833.35 |
Harlem Theater director Robert MacBeth
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| 01:17:37 1037.2 |
MacBeth rehearses his actors . perform scene
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| 01:23:49 1408.47 |
Method acting rehearsal CH black female actress rehearsing. Director MacBeth with actors in rehearsal, training session. radical Harlem black actors 1968
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| 01:31:01 1840.95 |
White advertising men visits Harlem Theater company, talks about their reviews with director MacBeth, Broadway director gives MacBeth "advice"
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| 01:32:35 1934.93 |
Black man in sunglasses watches television. Theater director Robert MacBeth
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| 01:32:56 1955.41 |
Following Robert MacBeth through building and into his dressing room where he is made up for interview. Bob MacBeth and members of Harlem Theater on Sonny Fox interview tTVshow - MacBeth watches broadcast in his dressing room
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| 01:36:24 2163.81 |
children of actors black grade school 1968, parents pick up children, busy school hallway
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| 01:37:00 2199.95 |
Black children given method acting lessons. cu little boy who receipts Mary Had A Little Lamb
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| 01:38:17 2277.04 |
young actors theme for improvisation theme: police prisoners arrested after race riot - one sentenced to death - Their last talk. Black actors improvise the scene
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| 01:42:09 2508.85 |
black actors rehearse a love scene - caress each others hands Acting class led by Robert MacBeth Harlem Theater 1968
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| 01:45:46 2725.93 |
ms group of police officers on street, Robert MacBeth and child look out window at police on street, ms police gather on Harlem street, cut to rehearsal loft, actors, children
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| 01:46:57 2796.96 |
ws police siren and flashing light of police car on Harlem street , fire truck in Harlem street, fire inspector on roof of Harlem tenement , slum buildings in Harlem, asks garbage to be removed from roof, fire inspector in Harlem tenement
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| 01:48:59 2918.74 |
ms pan of burned wreckage of interior of Harlem Theater
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| 01:49:29 2948.85 |
man looks out window at Harlem street and fire sirens as fire truck passes
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| 01:50:03 2982.91 |
fire department fire inspector walks through Harlem tenement street scene with Fireman on Harlem ghetto street
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| 01:50:55 3035.21 |
fire trucks on City street night Ed Bullins comments, firetruck on Harlem streets, police infront of brownstone in Harlem, black ghetto 1968 street screens
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| 01:51:55 3094.8 |
Harlem street, black harlem residents on Harlem street, daytime , Ghetto street scenes, police car lights flashing
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| 01:53:04 3163.4 |
large crowd on Harlem street listen to live jazz, public street concert in Harlem ghetto, cu teens sit on stoop of brownstone in Harlem, listen to love jazz on street
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| 01:53:04 3163.4 |
block party on Harlem Street, 1968, neighborhood get together Harlem Ghetto Black crowds African American neighborhood street scenes
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| 01:53:51 3210.75 |
CU elderly black woman dances on street
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| 01:53:55 3215.11 |
radical speaker on street speaks to Harlem crowd
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| 01:55:24 3303.4 |
Young black couple dancing on Harlem Street, listening to pop music and dancing in front of record store in Harlem speakers playing record on street, young lady dances on street in front of record store to Afro-Cuban jazz record. "Johnny's Records" shop in Harlem.
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| 01:56:36 3375.85 |
New York Park's Commissioner Press conference Harlem, 1968 planning of Festival [card reads]: "to amuse the ghetto inhabitants" - PLANNING OF THE SUMMER OF SOUL - "Harlem Festival"
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| 01:56:40 3379.38 |
CU belly of black go-go girl dancing in nightclub
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| 01:57:10 3410.08 |
CU New York Parks Commissioner on first Harlem Festival
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| 01:57:34 3433.5 |
scenes shot, summer of 1968 of the first HARLEM FESTIVAL (Summer of Soul)
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| 01:58:06 3465.49 |
black go-go dancer on Harlem nightclub stage
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| 01:58:31 3490.79 |
Harlem resident on street, Harlem street crowded with people, neighborhood shots, black man on ghetto life and the plight of poor black people
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| 01:59:29 3548.67 |
MS storefront: OUR THEATER - 1 West 125th Street - Harlem Theater group
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| 02:00:08 3587.23 |
Musicians Junior Mance John Williams, Ralph dorsey and Jim Barton : HOW DO YOU DO drama - filmed Harlem Theater scene JAZZ MUSICIANS perform
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| 02:02:37 3736.34 |
Young black woman with afro dances slowly and seductively in rehearsal studio of Harlem Theater- THEATER WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE directed by Robert MacBeth
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| 02:13:41 4400.94 |
RECORDING A BAD MEMORY - workshop performance Harlem Theater directed by Robert MacBeth, CU woman cries and screams
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| 02:16:34 4574.11 |
Quotes on scren from Black Panther "Minister of Information" Eldridge Cleaver. MacBeth on Cleaver getting shot and busted in Cleveland Ohio.
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| 02:17:09 4608.74 |
Ed Bullins, African American playwright
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| 02:21:31 4870.76 |
black Jazz musician Junior Mance and group at recording session inside recording studio. Jazz musicians, actors performing scene from play live in studio. Jazz poetry.
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| 02:23:25 4984.66 |
Black couple dance at Harlem Theater rehearsal space Showcase performance. man boxes punches boxing bag
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| 02:24:56 5075.87 |
chairman of BLACK PANTHER party Bobby Seale on state giving angry radical speech civil rights Seale makes demands for black people in decadent white society
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| 02:31:19 5458.48 |
Bobby Seales speech ends
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| 02:31:27 5466.8 |
Theater director MacBeth with actors, what he wants from them: needing "the blood of people on the stage, the spirit and blood of people"
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| 02:32:22 5521.97 |
Black actors at workshop do acting warm up exercises
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| 02:34:12 5631.32 |
Credits
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| 02:34:34 5654.07 |
young black Harlem community members walk out of storefront on to Harlem street dancing. Harlem 125th Street scene
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| 02:35:29 5708.98 |
black couple watch TV interview with black actor
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