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Lost boundaries
- Title
- Lost boundaries / directed by Alfred L. Werker.
- Publication
- Burbank, CA. : Warner Home Video c1996.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (99 min.) : sound, black & white; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Based on true events surrounding a light-skinned black family who pass for white in a New Hampshire town. Dr. Scott Carter is unable to secure a job as a physician because of his race so he decides "For one year of his life" to pass as a white man, but the one year becomes twenty. Eventually he and his family must confront the racism of the idyllic New Hampshire town he's served for decades. This film belongs to a forward-looking cluster of postwar films that declares war on society's ills, such as Boomerang, Pinky, and Gentleman's Agreement.
- Subjects
- Film adaptations
- Johnston, Albert Chandler, 1900-
- Passing (Identity) > Drama
- Racism > United States > Drama
- United States > Race relations > Drama
- Feature films
- African American physicians > New Hampshire > Drama
- African Americans > Race identity > Drama
- African Americans in motion pictures
- Race relations in motion pictures
- Johnston, Albert Chandler, 1925-
- Genre/Form
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Note
- Based on the book Lost Boundaries by William Lindsay White.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1949.
- Credits (note)
- Producer, Louis de Rochemont ; screenwriters, Virginia Shaler, Eugene Ling ; an RD-DR Production.
- Performer (note)
- Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer, Susan Douglas, Canada Lee, Richard Hylton.
- System Details (note)
- Close captioned.
- Call Number
- Sc Visual VRA-306
- ISBN
- 0790726696
- OCLC
- 45301088
- 45301088
- Title
- Lost boundaries / directed by Alfred L. Werker.
- Publisher
- Burbank, CA. : Warner Home Video c1996.
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- video
- Type of Carrier
- videocassette
- Cast
- Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer, Susan Douglas, Canada Lee, Richard Hylton.
- Credits
- Producer, Louis de Rochemont ; screenwriters, Virginia Shaler, Eugene Ling ; an RD-DR Production.
- System Details
- Close captioned.
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- Added Author
- Motion picture adaptation of (work): White, William Lindsay, 1900-1973. Lost Boundaries.Ferrer, Mel.Pearson, Beatrice, 1920-1986.Douglas, Susan.Lee, Canada.Hylton, Richard, 1921-1962.De Rochemont, Louis, 1899-1978, film producer.Werker, Alfred L, film director.Warner Home Video (Firm)RD-DR Corporation.
- Publisher No.
- 14269 Warner Home Video
- Research Call Number
- Sc Visual VRA-306