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Faubourg Tremé : the untold story of Black New Orleans

Title: Faubourg Tremé : the untold story of Black New Orleans / directed by Dawn Logson.
Publication: [San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, [2008]

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Description

1 videodisc (68 min.) : DVD video, sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Long ago during slavery, Faubourg Tremé was home to the largest community of free black people in the Deep South and a hotbed of political ferment. Here black and white, free and enslaved, rich and poor co-habitated, collaborated, and clashed to create much of what defines New Orleans culture up to the present day. Founded as a suburb (or faubourg in French) of the original colonial city, the neighborhood developed during French rule and many families like the Trevignes kept speaking French as their first language until the late 1960s. Tremé was the home of the Tribune, the first black daily newspaper in the US. During Reconstruction, activists from Tremé pushed for equal treatment under the law and for integration. And after Reconstruction's defeat, a "Citizens Committee" legally challenged the resegregation of public transportation resulting in the infamous Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court case. New Orleans Times Picayune columnist Lolis Eric Elie bought a historic house in Tremé in the 1990s when the area was struggling to recover from the crack epidemic. Rather than flee the blighted inner city, Elie begins renovating his dilapidated home and in the process becomes obsessed with the area's mysterious and neglected past. Shot largely before Hurricane Katrina and edited afterwards, the film is both celebratory and elegiac in tone.

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Genre/Form

Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Note

Narrator, JoNell Kennedy ; Interviewees, Glen David Andrews, Eric Foner, John Hope Franklin, Bob French, Fr. Jerome LeDoux, Wynton Marsalis, Keith Weldon Medley, Brenda Marie Osbey, Laura Rouzan, Kalamu ya Salaam, Lenwood Sloan, Irving Trevigne.
Source used: videodisc container.

Credits (note)

Producers, Lucie Faulknor, Dawn Logsdon, Lolis Eric Elie ; executive producers, Stanley Nelson, Wynton Marsalis ; cinematographer, Diego Velasco, Keith Smith, Bobby Shepard ; composer, Derrick Hodge ; film editors, Dawn Logsdon, Sam Green, Aljernon Tunsil ; a co-production of Serendipity Films LLC, Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB), WYES-TV/New Orleans and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ; produced in association with the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) ; New Day Films ; a documentary by Lolis Eric Elie and Dawn Logsdon.

System Details (note)

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen presentation; stereo; Dolby Digital.

Language (note)

Closed-captioned in English.

Call Number

Sc DVD-1

OCLC

220959907

Title

Faubourg Tremé : the untold story of Black New Orleans / directed by Dawn Logson.

Production

[San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, [2008]

Country of Producing Entity

United States naf

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Credits

Producers, Lucie Faulknor, Dawn Logsdon, Lolis Eric Elie ; executive producers, Stanley Nelson, Wynton Marsalis ; cinematographer, Diego Velasco, Keith Smith, Bobby Shepard ; composer, Derrick Hodge ; film editors, Dawn Logsdon, Sam Green, Aljernon Tunsil ; a co-production of Serendipity Films LLC, Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB), WYES-TV/New Orleans and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ; produced in association with the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) ; New Day Films ; a documentary by Lolis Eric Elie and Dawn Logsdon.

System Details

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen presentation; stereo; Dolby Digital.

Language

Closed-captioned in English.

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Added Author

Logsdon, Dawn, film director.

Elie, Lolis Eric, film director.

Faulknor, Lucie, film producer.

Nelson, Stanley, 1951- film producer.

Marsalis, Wynton, 1961- film producer, interviewee.

Velasco, Diego, cinematographer.

Smith, Keith (Cinematographer), director of photography.

Shepard, Bobby, cinematographer.

Hodge, Derrick, composer (expression)

Green, Sam, 1966- editor of moving image work.

Tunsil, Aljernon, editor of moving image work.

Kennedy, JoNell, narrator.

Andrews, Glen David, interviewee.

Foner, Eric, 1943- interviewee.

Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009, interviewee.

French, Bob, 1937-2012, interviewee.

Ledoux, Jérôme, interviewee.

Medley, Keith Weldon, interviewee.

Osbey, Brenda Marie, interviewee.

Rouzan, Laura, interviewee.

Salaam, Kalamu ya, 1947- interviewee.

Sloan, Lenwood O., interviewee.

Trevigne, Irving, interviewee.

New Day Films, production company.

Serendipity Films, production company.

Louisiana Public Broadcasting, production company.

WYES-TV (Television station : New Orleans, La.), production company.

Independent Television Service, production company.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, production company.

National Black Programming Consortium, production company.

California Newsreel (Firm), film distributor.

Research Call Number

Sc DVD-1

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