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The HistoryMakers video oral history with William Greaves.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with William Greaves.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Greaves, William
  • Crowe, Larry F.
  • Stearns, Scott
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 1 min., 50 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
Documentary filmmaker and stage actor William Greaves was born on October 8, 1926 in New York City. Beginning his career as an actor, he joined the prestigious Actors School in 1949 before moving to Canada in 1952 to study writing and directing at the National Film Board. Greaves returned to the United States and worked for United Nations Film and Television Department in the African Academy of Arts and Research. He established William Greaves Productions in 1964 and started creating his own films. In 1968, he began producing Black Journal, a monthly television program and left two years later after winning an Emmy Award. Greaves produced such films as Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. In all, he produced more than 200 documentaries and won more than seventy international film festival awards. Greaves passed away on August 25, 2014 at age 87.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with William Greaves
  • William Greaves
Subject
  • Greaves, William > Interviews
  • Greaves, William
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • Documentary Filmmaker Stage Actor Film Director
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Scott Stearns.
OCLC
1003150166
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with William Greaves.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
Playing Time
030150
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Event
Recorded New York, New York 2003 April 17.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
Documentary Filmmaker Stage Actor Film Director.
Added Author
Greaves, William, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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