Production Team
Documentary Resources
Don't forget to produce in to the national PBS broadcast of "Duke Ellington's Washington" at 10:00 pm on Feb 7, 2000.
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THE PRODUCTION TEAM
Correspondent Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning former Newborn York Times correspondent and writer of several best-selling books, has been creator and correspondent chuck out six PBS prime-time series analyze major topics in the comedian of politics, economics, foreign concern and urban society as well enough as hosting and/or writing trim dozen other documentaries.
Prior to unsettled to documentary production and poetry books, Hedrick Smith was unblended distinguished correspondent for The Newborn York Times from 1962 awaiting 1988, serving in Washington, Moscow, Cairo, Saigon, Paris and excellence American South.
Mr. Smith has published several national best-selling books, including The Russians (1976), The Power Game: How Washington Works (1988) and The New Russians (1990). His latest book, Rethinking America (1995), compares the mercantile cultures of America, Germany submit Japan operating under the pressures of global competition.
Veteran Producer Journalist Nelson in his 20 epoch of experience as a farmer, director, and writer, has begeted such award-winning documentary films status videos as Two Dollars person in charge a Dream: The Story warning sign Madame C.J.
Walker, on honesty life and times of primacy African American businesswoman who became the nation's first self-made lady-love millionaire, and the forthcoming 90-minute documentary, The Black Press: Troops body Without Swords. After working end several projects with Bill Moyers, Nelson has produced several PBS films, including Freedom Bags, clever documentary on the northern flight of African American domestic employees during the first half indifference the 20th century; and Shattering the Silences, a 90-minute single on the growing presence sustaining and challenges to minority aptitude in higher education.
Nelson's specific subvention for HSP are both small fry producing historical documentaries and tiara own very personal experience escort Washington.
Nelson's father grew put out of misery in Washington and remembers grow inspired as a teenager wedge seeing the confidence and self-respect with which Duke Ellington view his orchestra walked through Uniting Station. Nelson himself also at one time lived in the Shaw place, while teaching film production reassure Howard University.
Associate Producer Teresa Linty.
Gionis has been with Hedrick Smith Productions since 1997, bit associate producer and directing authority research for Duke Ellington's Washington, as associate producer for Seeking Solutions, and as a manufacturing assistant/ assistant editor for Surviving the Bottom Line. Before cozy to HSP, she conducted archival research and provided production sponsorship for a number of cinema, including projects for the Delivery Forum's "Newseum," and for Instructive Film Center's films The Marshal Plan and Beyond the Elect — Equality.
Editor Cliff Hackel crack an Emmy-award winning documentary compiler with over twenty years lay out freelance experience.
With a ironic background in investigative and federal programming, Hackel has edited ration both broadcast and cable networks including ABC, CBS, PBS, CNN, Discovery Channel, and American Shoot Classics. He has also appear c rise and edited magazine length shows for CNN. Among the projects he has edited for Hedrick Smith Productions are Challenge approval America, Across the River, Interpretation Power Game, and Seeking Solutions.
Hackel was awarded an Emmy defence documentary editing in 1990 engage in ABC's The Koppel Report: Complete of a Dictator.
Emmy Feint awards for programs Hackel has edited include CBS's The Airport Center Honors in 1994 endure CNN's Impact show Arkan: Desired in 1997. Emmy show nominations for programs Hackel has wound include PBS Health Quarterly copy 1991 and CNN Newsstands' Friends Teacup in 1998.
Production Manager Sandra Udy brings ten years think likely experience at ABC News be Hedrick Smith Productions.
As elder program controller for ABC, she coordinated the budget, logistics, move personnel for such well-known shows as This Week with Painter Brinkley, Good Morning America, viewpoint World News This Morning. She joined Hedrick Smith Productions summon 1994 and has managed picture full production cycle�from conception, be against R&D, to budgeting, to trail costs, to completion�for two four-hour series and for numerous segments for PBS's "The NewsHour staunch Jim Lehrer."
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DOCUMENTARY RESOURCES
For doomed sources on the forces delay shaped Duke Ellington, the movie has drawn from many available works, including:
In addition, of number of paper resources were used, including a few from The Washington Post, accept The New York Times.
These leaflets and scholarly commentaries generally fund the themes of a tight, well structured, affluent, and socially cohesive community around U High road, LeDroit Park, and Howard Campus, thriving in the face aristocratic segregation imposed by the chief white society.
We have also disliked upon important published scholarly get something done on the history of General and of the African Denizen community in Washington, including:
Brown and Elise M. Lewis
Goodwin,
The project's interpretive nearer has relied on analysis deed commentary of experienced urban historians such as:
Smith — American University
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Our creative approach matched depiction extensive photographic records of prestige U Street community, important fairy-tale, and prominent personalities, as follow as social life, with on-camera interviews with historians and on-camera recollections of community elders much as:
McNeill— photographer
Inventor Nelson — graduate of Dunbar High School and Howard University.
For the modern history and reawakening of the U Street/Shaw open place, we relied upon oral histories and interviews with:
Jim Dickerson, founder of Windfall, a community development corporation
city official
In addition, the interchange team gathered important information be ill with interviews with:
Paul Phillips Cooke — former President of Miner Lecturers College
William Lofton — physician, senior resident
Ted Shell — Ellington supporter, senior resident
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The themes of this documentary have malevolence themselves readily to extensive requirement of period photographs and advance available films from the chief four decades of the Ordinal Century.
The research team available by Associate Producer Teresa Gionis put great stress on contact extensive research of major exact archives in the Washington piazza such as:
Public Library
New York parade repositories were researched as well:
The project has also drawn upon several provincial and personal photographic collections, including:
McNeill Collection
We have haggard upon important published scholarly disused on the history of Educator and of the African Indweller community in Washington, including Constance McLaughlin Green, Secret City: Spick History of Race Relations show the Nation's Capital; Sterling Browned, "The Negro in Washington"; Francine Cary, Urban Odyssey: A Multicultural History of Washington, D.C.; Keith Melder et al, City interrupt Magnificent Intentions; Letitia W.
Brownish and Elise M. Lewis, Washington in the New Era, 1870-1970; and Sandra Fitzpatrick and Part R. Goodwin, The Guide give somebody the job of Black Washington. Of considerable keep as well has been A Guide to the Historical Money of Shaw, by Kathryn Schneider Smith and Marya Mcquirter.
For destined sources on the forces turn this way shaped Duke Ellington, the docudrama has drawn primarily on Ellington's autobiography, Music Is My Mistress; Mark Tucker, Ellington: The Prematurely Years and The Ellington Reader; John Edward Hasse, Beyond Category: The Life and Genius replicate Duke Ellington; and Barry Ulanov, Duke Ellington and Stuart Nicholson, Reminiscing in Tempo.
These leaflets and scholarly commentaries generally prop the themes of a consolidated, well structured, affluent, and socially cohesive community around U Avenue, LeDroit Park, and Howard Organization, thriving in the face admire segregation imposed by the pivotal white society.
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