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Great performances television stills collection

Title
Great performances television stills collection [graphic].
Publication
<198-?>

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Description
<11> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. and smaller.
Summary
Television and publicity stills of various programs on "Great Performances" including "Divine Drumbeats: Katherine Dunham and Her People," from "Dance in America," featuring Glory Van Scott, Vanoye Aikens, Doris Bennett, Norman Davis and Katherine Dunham; "Balanchine Celebrates Stravinsky," from "Dance in America," featuring Mel Tomlinson, Suzanne Farrell and Vera Zorina; "Dance Theatre of Harlem in A Streetcar Named Desire," from "Dance in America," featuring Virginia Johnson and Lowell Smith; "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" featuring Ruby Dee; a combined still for both "Purlie" featuring Sherman Hemsley, Robert Guillaume and Melba Moore and "Don Quixote," from "Dance in America," featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Cynthia Harvey; a combined still for both "The Cotton Club Remembered" featuring Cab Calloway and the program "Paul Robeson: Man of Conscience" featuring Paul Robeson; "Ellington - The Music Lives On" featuring Duke Ellington, Carly Simon, Sister Sledge, Cicley Tyson and Mercer Ellington; acombined still for "The Regard of Flight" featuring Bill Irwin and a portrait of Duke Ellington for an upcoming television profile; and a combined still for "Wynton Marsalis: Blues and Swing" featuring Marsalis, and two other PBS programs, "Frontline: Running With Jesse" and "Crisis: Who Will Do Science?" which were aired in celebration of Black History Month.
Donor/Sponsor
Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
Alternative Title
  • Crisis.
  • Don Quixote.
  • Frontline.
  • Wynton Marsalis.
  • Dance in America.
  • Divine drumbeats.
  • Balanchine celebrates Stravinsky.
  • Dance theatre of Harlem in a streetcar named Desire.
  • To be young, gifted and black.
  • Ellington.
  • Purlie.
  • Paul Robeson.
  • Cotton club remembered.
  • The regard of flight.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Television stills – 1980-1989.
  • Publicity photographs – 1980-1989.
  • Silver gelatin photoprints – 1980-1989.
Note
  • Title devised by cataloger.
  • Photographs bear captions.
Call Number
Sc Photo Television Stills
OCLC
NYPG087000193-F
Title
Great performances television stills collection [graphic].
Imprint
<198-?>
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Added Title
Crisis.
Don Quixote.
Frontline.
Wynton Marsalis.
Dance in America.
Divine drumbeats.
Balanchine celebrates Stravinsky.
Dance theatre of Harlem in a streetcar named Desire.
To be young, gifted and black.
Ellington.
Purlie.
Paul Robeson.
Cotton club remembered.
The regard of flight.
Research Call Number
Sc Photo Television Stills
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