Kino Lorber and Richard Kaplan are proud to announce the support of Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Puffin Foundation for the free distribution of LEGACY OF A DREAM to every middle and high school in the five boroughs of New York on DVD. In addition, Kino Lorber Edu is offering the film for free streaming or download to every school in America at www.legacyofadream.com. To support these efforts, Kino Lorber Edu is launching an IndieGoGo campaign, the funds from which will provide free access for every student in America to watch LEGACY OF A DREAM. In addition to the 24-minute film, there is a free downloadable teachers' guide.
LEGACY OF A DREAM is an original 24-minute film produced specifically for use in schools that uses selected footage from the 180-minute Academy Award-nominated documentary "KING: A Filmed Record; Montgomery to Memphis" to present a shorter account of Dr. King's non-violent campaign for civil rights and social justice. It uses only original newsreel and other primary material, unvarnished and unretouched, and covers the period from the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 through his assassination in 1968. This film has a powerful narration spoken by James Earl Jones and provides an excellent overview of the struggle for civil rights and "the right to protest for right." Edmund W. Gordon, John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Yale University and founder of Head Start, after viewing declared, "...a splendid documentary. I would enthusiastically endorse the idea of making access to this material available to school children in middle and high school." Richard Kaplan, the producer, says, "This is an opportunity to acquaint a new generation with an essential chapter of our history. As the philosopher George Santayana has said ‘Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’" Elizabeth Sheldon, Vice President of Kino Lorber, says, "LEGACY OF A DREAM is a rare resource of archival material that will bring Dr. King to life for a new generation." KING: A FILMED RECORD; MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS is a 1970 American documentary film biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. The original newsreel segments are framed by celebrity narrators Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Ben Gazzara, Charlton Heston, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster, Paul Newman, Anthony Quinn, Clarence Williams III and Joanne Woodward. When first released, it was shown in theaters as a "one-time-only" event on March 24, 1970 and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 1999, the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. -- Serena Koch Non-theatrical Sales & Marketing Kino Lorber 333 West 39th Street, Suite 503 New York, NY 10018 (t) 212.629.6880 (f) 212-714-0871 VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
