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[24-Hour Film Feast, 3 if 3]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 24-Hour Film Festival held on November 16th, 2001. The BetaCam footage shows interviews and an audience dialogue with black actors and directors.
Date: November 16, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 39 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[WFAA show featuring the Ruby Dee Juneteenth film festival]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a WFAA televised broadcast featuring the Juneteenth film festival highlighting actress Ruby Dee in June of 2005. The Betacam footage features footage from the red carpet events and interviews with key individuals from TBAAL.
Date: June 2005
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[WFAA show featuring the Ruby Dee Juneteenth film festival, 2]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a WFAA televised broadcast featuring the Juneteenth film festival highlighting actress Ruby Dee in June of 2005. The Betacam footage features footage from the red carpet events and interviews with key individuals from TBAAL.
Date: June 2005
Duration: 8 minutes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pidgeon]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the actor Walter Pidgeon arriving in Dallas after a film festival in Uruguay.
Date: February 10, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Film critic]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the USA film festival which is now in its' s fifth day at Southern Methodist university in Dallas.
Date: March 29, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["A Sharp Show" film feast luncheon]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 2006 Filmfeast weekend of the luncheon featuring director Pearl S. Sharp. The event entitled "A Sharp Show" screened her short films "Life is a Saxophone", "The Healing Passage", "Picking Tribes", and "Back Inside Herself". The footage shows Sharp being interviewed followed by the luncheon dialogue and Q&A.
Date: May 6, 2000
Duration: 26 minutes 40 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[24-Hour Film Feast with Warrington Hudlin tape 2]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a taping session of a "Filmfeast" held on November 21st, 2009 at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre featuring director Warrington Hudlin. The footage features a live Q&A discussion with the director where he takes questions from the audience while going into detail about his early life and career. The tape also features content before and beginning at the 19:28 minute mark of the AIDS Life Walk.
Date: November 21, 2009
Duration: 41 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis & Hudlin, Warrington
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Film people]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a plane filled with motion picture actors stopping at Love Field in Dallas on the way to a film festival in Uruguay.
Date: January 12, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[TBAAL interview takes]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their interview takes of members of the Academy. The footage shows a man and two women being prompted from a voice behind the camera. Each individual does two takes and appears in a different location.
Date: October 18, 2002
Duration: 4 minutes 21 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[24-Hour Film Feast with Charles S. Dutton tape 1 of 2]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during TBAALs 2012 24-Hour Filmfeast featuring actor Charles S. Dutton. The footage features a live Q&A discussion with a predominately young audience with the actor who takes questions about his role in "The Piano Lesson". Dutton goes into detail about his time on Broadway, with the writers, his career, and his perspective on the industry.
Date: November 17, 2012
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Dutton, Charles S. & Waller, Alonzo
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[24-Hour Film Feast with Melvin Van Peebles tape 2]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during TBAALs 34th season 24-Hour Filmfeast featuring director Melvin Van Peebles. The footage features a live Q&A discussion with the director where he takes questions from the audience while going into detail about his early life and career.
Date: October 30, 2010
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Peebles, Melvin Van
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[24-Hour Film Feast, 2 of 2: Irma P. Hall]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a taping session held during the 2006 "Film Feast" of Irma P. Hall. The footage is split into a conversation between Curtis King and Hall that highlights a membership drive followed by a Hall being recorded for an advertisement for the 30th-anniversary bash for the academy to be held in September. The end of the clip shows Irma posing for photos with a crew member and signing autographs
Date: March 18, 2006
Duration: 6 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[24-Hour Film Feast with Melvin Van Peebles tape 1]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during TBAALs 34th season 24-Hour Filmfeast featuring director Melvin Van Peebles. The footage features a live Q&A discussion with the director where he takes questions from the audience while going into detail about his early life and career.
Date: October 30, 2010
Duration: 40 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Peebles, Melvin Van
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Juneteenth PBS documentary featuring Beah Richards]

Description: Documentary shown at annual Juneteenth film festival of The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. The film made in 1974, shown on PBS, outlines the history of Juneteenth followed by interview accounts from the present on what Juneteenth means to the Black community. The documentary features female actress, author, and speaker Beah Richards reading from her book "A Black Woman Speaks". Video footage provided by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters.
Date: 1974
Duration: 47 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Phillips, Joe & Scott, Ed
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Special Episode: 2021 Thin Line Fest with Joshua Butler

Description: Podcast produced by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) that features an interview with UNT Alumnus Joshua Butler, founder and Director of the Thin Line Fest, a documentary and music festival in Denton, Texas. Susan and Joshua discuss the history of the festival, and the festival's conversion to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: November 2020
Duration: 38 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Special Episode: Denton Black Film Festival 2021 with Harry & Linda Eaddy

Description: Podcast produced by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) that features an interview with Harry Eaddy, Director of the Denton Black Film Festival, and Linda Eaddy, the festival's Director of Film Programming. Susan and the Eaddys discuss the history of the Denton Black Film Festival, and the conversion of the festival to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: January 13, 2021
Duration: 53 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Flyer: Leadbelly]

Description: Flyer for the performance of the play 'Leadbelly' starring Roger E. Mosley and hosted by the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters on February 23, 1990 at the Dallas Convention Center Complex.
Date: March 23, 1990
Creator: Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pam Grier holds pen in her hand]

Description: Photograph of Pam Grier holding a pen in her hand, taken at a 24-Hour FilmFeast event featuring Pam Grier, sponsored by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, event was held at the Clarence Muse Cafe Theatre in Dallas, Texas.
Date: March 19, 2011
Creator: Brown, Jirard
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Charles Dutton speaking, 16]

Description: Photograph of Charles S. Dutton speaking into a microphone on stage taken at a 24-Hour FilmFeast event featuring Charles Dutton, sponsored by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.
Date: November 17, 2012
Creator: Dukes, Kevin
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Dutton addresses crowd, 8]

Description: Photograph of Charles S. Dutton speaking into a microphone taken at a 24-Hour FilmFeast event featuring Charles Dutton, sponsored by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas.
Date: November 17, 2012
Creator: Dukes, Kevin
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Curtis King speaking into mic]

Description: Photograph of Curtis King speaking into the mic, taken at a 24-Hour FilmFeast event featuring Pam Grier, sponsored by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, event was held at the Clarence Muse Cafe Theatre in Dallas, Texas.
Date: March 19, 2011
Creator: Brown, Jirard
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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