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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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Additional Authors
  • Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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.
Subjects
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.
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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
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