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THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE, probes the recesses of American history through images that have been suppressed, forgotten, and lost. Directed by Thomas Allen Harris. The film features the late photographer Hugh Bell.
Read MorePremiering March 30th, the PBS special series THE BLINDING OF ISAAC WOODARD presents the story of the horrific beating of a Black army sergeant during WWII that ultimately set the stage for the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which finally outlawed segregation in public schools and jumpstarted the modern civil rights movement. Pictured above, Dr. Kenneth B. Clark was an important expert witness in Briggs v. Elliott (1952), one of five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Read MoreAMIA Newsletter |volume 87Winter 2010| page 18
Notes from the Field
“Lubin Photos” Episode on PBS’s History Detectives
Who was Siegmund Lubin? Was Herbert Lubin a movie star?
Jon Gartenberg, President of Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) and, GME Project Manager Jeff Capphelp PBS’s History Detectives answer these and other questions while examining two albums of “centuryold photos that may have captured the dawn of American movie-making – nearly 3000 miles fromHollywood.”
In Episode 4 of Season 7 Tukufu Zuberi calls “upon film archivists and historians Jon Gartenberg and Jeff Capp to shed some light on the Lubin film studios. They were able to use their expertise and knowledge to reveal a forgotten history of film production in Philadelphia, assisting History Detectives in examining century old photos.”
The entire episode, originally aired on July 13, 2009, is viewable online at:
http://www.pbs.org/video/1176774004/
