Color adjustment [videorecording]

Color adjustment [videorecording]

Riggs, Marlon T.

Kleiman, Vivian.

Watkins, Mary M.

Dee, Ruby.

California Newsreel (Firm)

moving image

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel,

1991

eng

Analyzes the evolution of television's earlier, unflattering portrayal of blacks from 1948 until 1988 where they are depicted as prosperous, having achieved the American dream, a portrayal that is inconsistent with reality.

Directed and written by Marlon T. Riggs ; produced by Marlon T. Riggs and Vivian Kleiman ; editor, Deborah Hoffman ; original music, Mary Watkins.

Narrator, Ruby Dee.

pt. 1. Color blind TV? 1948-1968 (47 min.)--pt. 2. Coloring the dream, 1968-1988 (40 min.).

African Americans

Television