Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Dee, Ruby
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Description

1. 998 videocassettes.

Summary

1. Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee were African American actors, directors, writers, and activists whose careers spanned the mediums of theatre, television, radio, film, and print.

Subject

1. Video recordings
2. Sound recordings
3. Civil rights workers > United States
4. African Americans in the performing arts
5. African Americans in television broadcasting
6. African American political activists
7. African American motion picture producers and directors
8. African American motion picture actors and actresses
9. African American actresses

Genre/Form

1. Sound recordings.
2. Video recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Davis Dee 1989-91

Note

1. The collection consists of 605 sound recordings and 998 moving image recordings, chronicling, from 1932 to 2015, the couple's artistic careers as performers and authors, as well as their work as civil rights activists. Included in the collection are episodes of With Ossie and Ruby, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Story Hour, interviews, speeches, stage performances, televised appearances, films, and other personal recordings.

Linking entry (note)

1. See the Manuscripts, Archvies and Rare Books Division for the Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee papers, Sc MG 305.

Author

1. Davis, Ossie, creator.

Title

1. Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee audio and moving image collection.

Production

1. [2015]

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image
2. spoken word

Type of medium

1. video
2. audio

Type of carrier

1. videocassette
2. audiocassette

Linking entry

1. See the Manuscripts, Archvies and Rare Books Division for the Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee papers, Sc MG 305.

Added author

1. Dee, Ruby, creator.
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Davis Dee 1989-91