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Wattstax

Title: Wattstax / directed by Mel Stuart.
Publication: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2004.

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Description

1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Documents the concert that came to be known as 'the Black Woodstock,' held on the anniversary of 1965 Watts Riot, and had 100,000 in attendance.

Uniform Title

Wattstax (Motion picture)

Alternative Title

What you see is what you get.
Oh la de da.
We the people.
Lift every voice and sing.
Someone greater than you and I.
Lying on the truth.
Peace be still.
Old time religion.
Son of Shaft.
I'll sing the blues for you.
Walking the backstreet.
Jody.
I may not be what you want.
Picking up the pieces.
Breakdown.
Funky chicken.
If loving you is wrong I don't want to be right.
Shaft.
Soulsville.

Subject

Genre/Form

Popular music.
Concert films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.

Note

Originally released as a motion picture in 1973.
Special features: audio and video commentaries by rap activist/musicologist Chuck D and music historian Rob Bowman; audio commentary by director Mel Stuart, Larry Clark, Al Bell and Isaac Hayes; Rolling down a mountain: Isaac Hayes performs the original 1973 version's finale; complete Albert King performance of I'll Play the Blues For You; original 1973 and special edition 2003 trailers.

Credits (note)

Producers, Larry Shaw, Mel Stuart ; cinematographer, Roderick Young ; editor, Robert K. Lambert ; a Stax Films/Wolper Pictures production.

Event (note)

Concert performances filmed at Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 20, 1972.

System Details (note)

DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby digital, surround 5.1, stereo.

Language (note)

Closed-captioned.

Contents

Songs. What you see is what you get (the Dramatics) -- Oh la de da ; We the people (the Staple Singers) -- Lift every voice and sing (Kim Weston) -- Someone greater than you & I (Jimmy Jones) -- Lying on the truth (Rance Allen Group) -- Peace be still (the Emotions) -- Old time religion (William Bell, Louise McCord, Debra Manning, Eric Mercury, Freddy Robinson, Lee Sain, Ernie Hines, Little Sonny, Eddie Floyd, Frederick Knight ; Newcomers ; Temprees) -- Son of Shaft (the Bar-Kays) -- I'll sing the blues for you (Albert King) -- Walking the backstreet (Little Milton) -- Jody (Johnnie Taylor) -- I may not be what you want (Mel & Tim) -- Picking up the pieces (Carla Thomas) -- Breakdown ; Funky chicken (Rufus Thomas) -- If loving you is wrong I don't want to be right (Luther Ingram) -- Shaft ; Soulsville (Issac [sic] Hayes).

Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-473

ISBN

0790794594

LCCN

085393499723

OCLC

56365712

Title

Wattstax / directed by Mel Stuart.

Imprint

Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2004.

Edition

30th-anniversary special ed.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

System Details

DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby digital, surround 5.1, stereo.

Performer

Narrator: Richard Pryor ; introductory speaker: Jesse Jackson ; with various performers.

Credits

Producers, Larry Shaw, Mel Stuart ; cinematographer, Roderick Young ; editor, Robert K. Lambert ; a Stax Films/Wolper Pictures production.

Event

Concert performances filmed at Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 20, 1972.

Language

Closed-captioned.

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Added Author

Stuart, Mel, film director.

Pryor, Richard, 1940-2005, narrator.

Shaw, Larry, ǂd 1937- film producer.

Young, Roderick, cinematographer.

Jackson, Jesse, 1941- speaker.

Weston, Kim, performer.

Jones, A. E. (A. E. Jimmy), performer.

Bell, William, 1939- performer.

McCord, Louise, performer.

Thomas, Deborah Manning, performer.

Mercury, Eric, performer.

Robinson, Freddy, performer.

Sain, Lee, performer.

Hines, Ernie, performer.

Little Sonny, performer.

Floyd, Eddie, performer.

Knight, Frederick, 1944- performer.

King, Albert, 1923-1992, performer.

Little Milton, performer.

Taylor, Johnnie, performer.

Thomas, Carla, 1942- performer.

Thomas, Rufus, 1917-2001, performer.

Ingram, Luther.

Hayes, Isaac, performer.

Dramatics (Musical group), performer.

Staple Singers, performer.

Rance Allen Group (Musical group), performer.

Emotions (Musical group), performer.

Newcomers (Musical group), performer.

Temprees (Musical group), performer.

Bar-Kays (Musical group), performer.

Mel & Tim, performer.

Warner Home Video (Firm), prodeuction company.

Added Title

What you see is what you get.

Oh la de da.

We the people.

Lift every voice and sing.

Someone greater than you and I.

Lying on the truth.

Peace be still.

Old time religion.

Son of Shaft.

I'll sing the blues for you.

Walking the backstreet.

Jody.

I may not be what you want.

Picking up the pieces.

Breakdown.

Funky chicken.

If loving you is wrong I don't want to be right.

Shaft.

Soulsville.

Other Standard Identifier

085393499723

Publisher No.

34997 Warner Home Video

Research Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-473

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