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An Interview with Dick Campbell
- Title
- An Interview with Dick Campbell/ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by Jean Blackwell Hutson.
- Author
- Campbell, Dick, 1903-1994
- Publication
- 1982-05-05.
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1982.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 1 | Moving image | By appointment only | Sc Visual DVD-1446 Disc 1 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 2 | Moving image | By appointment only | Sc Visual DVD-1446 Disc 2 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 3 | Moving image | By appointment only | Sc Visual DVD-1446 Disc 3 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 4 | Moving image | By appointment only | Sc Visual DVD-1446 Disc 4 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Description
- 4 videodiscs (83 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Mr. Campbell describes his earlier work as a theatre and concert producer and his present work with the Sickle Cell Disease Foundation of Greater New York. Education and youth in Beaumont, Texas; move to New York, 1928; second wife, Muriel Rahn; formation of Rose McClendon Players; work as producer of Black USO shows, 1942-1946; discrimination against blacks in television and radio industries; television boycott, Feb. 1950 organized by Coordinating Council for Negro Performers; trips to Africa as field consultant in Dept. of African Affairs, State Department, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, 1957-1965; experiences as producer - fight with Billy Rose over salary for Muriel Rahn in Carmen Jones; first contract negotiated for Ossie Davis after World War II; setting of pay levels by producers during USO productions; different productions sent abroad and in U.S. for USO; concert performance business after World War II, booking Muriel Rahn and the Columbia Artists Management monopoly; finding audiences for young black artists; work for Sickle Cell Anemia and the activities of the Sickle Cell Disease Foundation of Greater New York.
- Subject
- Campbell, Dick, 1903-1994 > Interviews
- Rahn, Muriel
- Sickle Cell Disease Foundation of Greater New York
- Theatrical producers and directors > United States > Biography
- Theater > United States > Biography
- Theater > Production and direction > United States
- African American theater
- African Americans in the performing arts
- African Americans in television broadcasting
- Genre/Form
- Nonfiction films.
- Filmed interivews.
- Oral histories.
- Interviews.
- Biographies.
- Black films and programs.
- Biography (note)
- Mr. Campbell was a theatrical producer.
- Call Number
- Sc Visual DVD-1446
- OCLC
- 24086627
- Author
- Campbell, Dick, 1903-1994, interviewee.
- Title
- An Interview with Dick Campbell/ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by Jean Blackwell Hutson.
- Imprint
- 1982-05-05.
- Publisher
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1982.
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- video
- Type of Carrier
- videodisc
- Event
- Recorded May 5, 1982 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
- Biography
- Mr. Campbell was a theatrical producer.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Campbell, Dick, 1903-1994, interviewee.Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998, interviewer.Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Visual DVD-1446