- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 59 min., 17 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Film director and producer, archivist and fine artist Camille Billops was born on August 12, 1933 in Los Angeles, California. Billops obtained her B.A. degree from California State University as well as her M.F.A. degree from City College of New York in 1973. Her primary medium is sculpture, and her works are in the permanent collections of the Jersey City Museum in Jersey City, New Jersey and the Museum of Drawers, Bern, Switzerland. In 1975, with her husband, Black theatre historian, James Hatch, she founded the Hatch-Billops Collection, where they served as archivists. Billops' highly autobiographical film Finding Christa garnered the Grand Jury Prize for documentaries at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival. Her other film credits include Older Women and Love, The KKK Boutique Ain't Just Rednecks, Take Your Bags, and A String of Pearls. Billops produced all of her films with her husband and their film company, Mom and Pop Productions.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Camille Billops
- Camille Billops
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- OCLC
- 994208991
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Camille Billops.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
025917
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Shawn Wilson, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2006 December 14.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Fine Artist Archivist Film Producer.
- Added Author
Billops, Camille, interviewee.
Wilson, Shawn, interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.