Faubourg-Tremé-[DVD]-:-the-untold-story-of-Black-New-Orleans

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Faubourg Tremé [DVD] : the untold story of Black New Orleans

By Logsdon, Dawn., film director, film producer, film editor.
Elie, Lolis Eric., film director, film producer, screenwriter.

Genre Nonfiction television programs.

Audience All ages

Bib Id 1167272

Description 1 videodisc (68 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Long ago during slavery, Faubourg Tremé was home to the largest community of free black people in the Deep South and a hotbed of political ferment. Here black and white, free and enslaved, rich and poor co-habitated, collaborated, and clashed to create much of what defines New Orleans culture up to the present day. Founded as a suburb (or faubourg in French) of the original colonial city, the neighborhood developed during French rule and many families like the Trevignes kept speaking French as their first language until the late 1960s. Tremé was the home of the Tribune, the first black daily newspaper in the US. During Reconstruction, activists from Tremé pushed for equal treatment under the law and for integration. And after Reconstruction's defeat, a "Citizens Committee" legally challenged the resegregation of public transportation resulting in the infamous Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court case. New Orleans Times Picayune columnist Lolis Eric Elie bought a historic house in Tremé in the 1990s when the area was struggling to recover from the crack epidemic. Rather than flee the blighted inner city, Elie begins renovating his dilapidated home and in the process becomes obsessed with the area's mysterious and neglected past. Shot largely before Hurricane Katrina and edited afterwards, the film is both celebratory and elegiac in tone. ...
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cgm a22 i 4500

ISBN

$30.00

Call #

DVD F

Title

Faubourg Tremé [DVD] : the untold story of Black New Orleans

Description

1 videodisc (68 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Form of Work

Motion picture

Note

Title from title frames.

Originally produced as a television program in 2007.

Creation/Production Credits

Cinematography, Diego Velasco, Keith Smith, Bobby Shepard ; composer, Derrick Hodge ; editors, Dawn Logsdon, Sam Green, Aljernon Tunsil.

Performers

Narrator, JoNell Kennedy ; Interviewees, Glen David Andrews, Eric Foner, John Hope Franklin, Bob French, Fr. Jerome LeDoux, Wynton Marsalis, Keith Weldon Medley, Brenda Marie Osbey, Laura Rouzan, Kalamu ya Salaam, Lenwood Sloan, Irving Trevigne.

Summary

System Details

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen presentation; stereo.

Language Note

Closed-captioned in English.

Subject

African Americans--Louisiana New Orleans--Social conditions.

African Americans--Civil rights History.--Louisiana New Orleans

Tremé (New Orleans, La.)--History.

New Orleans (La.)--History.

Genre/Form

Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary television programs.
Historical television programs.
Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Documentaires télévisés.
Émissions historiques télévisées

Added Author

Logsdon, Dawn., film director, film producer, film editor.

Elie, Lolis Eric., film director, film producer, screenwriter.

Faulknor, Lucie., film producer.

Nelson, Stanley, 1951- film producer.

Marsalis, Wynton, 1961- film producer, interviewee.

Velasco, Diego., director of photography.

Smith, Keith (Cinematographer), director of photography.

Shepard, Bobby., director of photography.

Hodge, Derrick., composer (expression)

Green, Sam, 1966- editor of moving image work.

Tunsil, Aljernon., editor of moving image work.