The HistoryMakers video oral history with Melvin Van Peebles.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 41 min., 17 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2006.100
Subjects

Other author/creatorVan Peebles, Melvin, 1932- interviewee.
Other author/creatorWilson, Shawn, interviewer.
Other author/creatorBurghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Melvin Van Peebles
Portion of title Melvin Van Peebles
Abstract Actor, writer, and director Melvin Van Peebles was born on August 21, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois. Before his success in America, Van Peebles wrote and directed the French film The Story of a Three-Day Pass in 1968. His first Hollywood film was a comedy called Watermelon Man, made in 1970 with writer Herman Raucher. Writing and directing the independent feature Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song in 1971, Van Peebles was credited with starting a new era in American cinema, the "Blaxploitation" Era. In 2005, Van Peebles was the subject of a documentary entitled How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It). As a playwright, he was nominated for three Tony Awards in 1972, as both composer and lyricist, for Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death and in 1973, as Best Book Musical for Don't Play Us Cheap.
CreditsVideographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Performer Shawn Wilson, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2006 September 9.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2006.100 HistoryMakers

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