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Riggs, Marlon T. (Added Author). Kleiman, Vivian. (Added Author). Dee, Ruby. (Added Author). California Newsreel (Firm) (Added Author). Signifyin' Works (Firm) (Added Author).

Summary: This study of prejudice and perception traces over forty years of race relations in America through the lens of prime time TV entertainment. Black actors Esther Rolle, Diahann Carroll, Denise Nicholas, and Tim Reid and Hollywood producers Norman Lear, Steve Bochco and David Wolper reveal the behind-the-scenes story of how prime time was "integrated." Revisiting such popular hits as Amos and Andy, Beulah, The Nat King Cole Show, Julia, I Spy, Good Times and Roots, viewers see how bitter racial conflict was absorbed into the non-controversial formats of the prime time series.

Record details

Physical Description: videorecording
videodisc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. (DVD)
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel, c2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally produced in 1991.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part 1. Color blind TV? (1948-1968) -- part 2. Coloring the dream (1968-1988).
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Producers, Marlon Riggs and Vivian Kleiman ; director Marlon Riggs.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrator, Ruby Dee.
System Details Note:	DVD.