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Interview with Ossie Davis, actor, author, producer-director

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Instructional Media Laboratory of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Actor, writer, and director Ossie Davis discusses filmmaking and how African-Americans can and must play a role as not only as actors, but also in technical production so as to ensure the development of films which realistically portray the place of Blacks in contemporary society. Interviewed by Dr. Lionel Barrow and Tejumola Ologeboni.GrayscaleSound
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Dr. Lionel Barrow ; Tejumola Ologeboni
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University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee

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Recollection Wisconsin

Keywords

  1. Activists, Human Rights
  2. Black Actors
  3. Davis, Ossie
  4. Filmmaking (Motion Pictures)

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