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The Harlem Renaissance and the Blues: Rare Documentaries
Saturday, April 24, 2004
8:00PM
$10.00 RSVP Requested
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EVENT: Film Screening "The Harlem Renaissance and the Blues: Rare Documentaries"
featuring "From These Roots", "St Louis Blues" starring the Empress of the blues Bessie Smith
"Buck Dancer" by Alan Lomax, "Blind Gary Davis" by Harold Becker and "Chicago Blues",
starring blues greats Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, JB Hutto and more. With
cultural activist Dick Gregory .
VENUE: Oddball Film+Video, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
DATE: Saturday, April 24, 2004 at 8:00PM
ADMISSION: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP REQUESTED
RESERVATIONS: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 415.558.8112, leave names
NOTE: This program will be screened in 16mm film
Harlem Renaissance and The Blues: Rare Documentaries
On Saturday April 24, 2002 Oddball Film+Video presents "Harlem Renaissance and the Blues:
Rare Documentaries". The screening will take place at Oddball Film+Video, 275 Capp St in
San Francisco. Showtime is 8:00PM. Admission is $10.00. Limited Seating. RSVP requested.
"From These Roots"(B+W, 1974) documents the artistic, social and political renaissance of
Afro-Americans during 1920�s Harlem and spotlights performers and artists such as Duke
Ellington, Josephine Baker, Fats Waller, Ethel Waters, Langston Hughes and many others. This
film provides an insightful introduction to the history of black culture in 1920s America. With
an original piano score by Eubie Blake.
The rarely screened "St Louis Blues"(1929, B+W) stars the legendary Empress of Blues, Bessie
Smith in her only film appearance. This short was written by Kenneth W. Adams and W.C.
Handy and based on Handy's famous song "St. Louis Blues". It was directed by Dudley Murphy
(director of the 1924 French avante garde classic "Le Ballet Mechanique") and shot in June of
1929 in Astoria, Long Island. The film features a top notch jazz band that includes James P
Johnson on piano Thomas Morris and Joe Smith on cornet, as well as the Hall Johnson Choir.
The film had an all African American cast co-starring dancer/actor Jimmy Mordecai and
Isabel Washington Powell.
"Chicago Blues"(Color, 1970) traces the evolution of blues music from its origins in the rural
South to the contemporary electric sound shaped in the ghettos of Chicago. The film features
electrifying performances by blues greats such as Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, JB
Hutto and more. This insightful film also features interviews with cultural activist Dick
Gregory and other cultural luminaries.
"Blind Gary Davis"(1964, B+W) also known as the reverend Gary Davis was one of America�s
greatest bluesmen. His driving, intricate fingerpicking; gruff, powerful voice; and repertoire
consisting largely of spirituals resulted in some of the most powerful, moving music in the
history of the blues. This portrait, shot in New York�s Harlem in 1964 by Harold Becker is a
stirring performance of Davis intercut with images of Harlem�s then declining landscape.
"Buck Dancer: (1965, B+W) was directed by famed ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax in
Mississippi in 1965 and contains several clips of raw, riveting and sublime African-American
roots music ever filmed.
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Oddball Film+Video 275 Capp Street San Francisco 415-558-8112
Off Mission between 17th and 18th Street(closer to 18th)
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] 415-558-8112
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