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Oral history interview with Robert Townsend, 21 August 1987
- Title
- Oral history interview with Robert Townsend, 21 August 1987 / interviewed by James Briggs Murray.
- Author
- Townsend, Robert, 1957-
- Publication
- 1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | Sc Visual VRB-2010 | 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. | Moving image | Use in library | Sc Visual VRA-123 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (21 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- The oral history interview with Robert Townsend briefly documents his childhood in Chicago.
- Subjects
- Racism in motion pictures
- African Americans > Race identity
- Second City (Theater company)
- Townsend, Robert, 1957- > Interviews
- Davis, Ossie
- Dee, Ruby
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)
- Negro Ensemble Company
- Wayans, Keenan Ivory
- Oral history
- African American motion picture producers and directors
- African Americans in the motion picture industry
- African American motion picture actors and actresses
- African Americans in motion pictures
- Interviews
- Racism
- Biographies
- Hollywood shuffle (Motion picture)
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Biographies.
- Oral history.
- Event (note)
- Recorded on August 21, 1987, at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Oral History Video Documentation Program, New York, N.Y.
- System Details (note)
- VHS.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.
- Biography (note)
- Robert Townsend is an actor, filmmaker, and writer.
- Call Number
- Sc Visual VRA-123
- OCLC
- NYPG95-F277
- Author
- Townsend, Robert, 1957- Interviewee
- Title
- Oral history interview with Robert Townsend, 21 August 1987 / interviewed by James Briggs Murray.
- Imprint
- 1987.
- Original Version
- Reproduction. Originally produced: New York, N.Y. : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 1987. 1 videocassette ; 3/4 in. (U-matic).
- Event
- Recorded on August 21, 1987, at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Oral History Video Documentation Program, New York, N.Y.
- System Details
- VHS.
- Terms Of Use
- Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.
- Biography
- Robert Townsend is an actor, filmmaker, and writer. Born on Feb. 6, 1957, in Chicago, Ill., he co-wrote, co-starred, produced and directed "Hollywood shuffle"--a satire on African American stereotyping and racial attitudes of the film industry in general and Hollywood in particular.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Murray, James Briggs. InterviewerSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Visual VRA-123 Service copy.Sc Visual VRB-2010 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-123.