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Bearden plays Bearden

Title
Bearden plays Bearden / directed by Nelson E. Breen.
Publication
[St. Petersburg, Fla.] : Third World Cinema Production, [2012]

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Additional Authors
  • Breen, Nelson E
  • Bell, Richard E., 1953-
  • Allen, Billie
  • Jones, James Earl
  • Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988.
  • Third World Cinema Productions, production company.
  • Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), film distributor.
Description
2 videodiscs (ca. 144 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Study of artist Romare Bearden and how his southern roots and years in Harlem have influenced his paintings and collages. In depicting, through his paintings, the black experience in America, he has been compared to such blues/jazz artists as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographical films.
  • Documentary films.
  • Nonfiction films.
Note
  • Originally released as a motion picture in 1980.
  • "PBS"--Container spine.
Credits (note)
  • Screenwriters, Billie Allen, Nelson E. Breen ; producer, Richard Bell ; cinematographer, Julius Potocsny ; editor, Harry Howard ; composer, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson ; Bearden Plays Bearden LLC presents a Third World Cinema production.
System Details (note)
  • DVD; fullscreen (1.33:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital 2.0.
Contents
Disc 1. 28 min. version ; 59 min. version -- disc 2. Bonus features: Influences on Romare Bearden; Conversation: Alvin Ailey, James Baldwin, Bearden & Al Murray; Printmaking; Naming paintings; "The Block"; A poem by Romare Bearden; Cinque Gallery; Romare Bearden Foundation video; End credits.
Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-435
LCCN
798304219371
OCLC
811344084
Title
Bearden plays Bearden / directed by Nelson E. Breen.
Imprint
[St. Petersburg, Fla.] : Third World Cinema Production, [2012]
Country of Producing Entity
United States.
System Details
DVD; fullscreen (1.33:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital 2.0.
Performer
Narrator, James Earl Jones.
Credits
Screenwriters, Billie Allen, Nelson E. Breen ; producer, Richard Bell ; cinematographer, Julius Potocsny ; editor, Harry Howard ; composer, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson ; Bearden Plays Bearden LLC presents a Third World Cinema production.
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Added Author
Breen, Nelson E, film director.
Bell, Richard E., 1953- film producer.
Allen, Billie, screenwriter.
Jones, James Earl, narrator.
Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988.
Third World Cinema Productions, production company.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), film distributor.
Other Standard Identifier
798304219371
Research Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-435
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