The Paul Robeson Collection
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Call Number: DVD Drama Paul
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Originally released as motion pictures in 1936 and 1937 respectively.
Song of freedom based on a story by Claude Wallace & Dorothy Holloway.
Big fella based on the novel Banjo by Claude McKay.
Song of freedom (80 min.) / Exclusive Films present ; scenario, Ingram D'Abbes, Fenn Sherie ; music by Eric Ansell ; lyrics by Henrik Ege ; director, J. Elder Wills ; a Hammer production -- Big fella (73 min.) / a British Lion picture ; screenplay, Ingram Dábbes, Fenn Sherie ; director, J. Elder Wills ; music by Eric Ansell.
Song of freedom: Paul Robeson, Elizabeth Welch, Esme Percy.
Big fella: Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Eldon Grant, Roy Emerton, Marcelle Rogez.
In Song of freedom, a successful concert singer discovers he is the descendant of a West African queen whose tribe is now in need of a leader. In Big fella, Joe, a dockworker in Marseilles, finds a missing boy and takes him to stay with a local cafe singer, Miranda, where they both become surrogate parents to the child.
DVD; full screen.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Kino on Video, c2000.
Year Published: 2000
Description: 1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.
Welch, Elisabeth.
Percy, Esmé, 1887-1957.
Grant, Eldon, 1922-1950.
Emerton, Roy, 1892-1944.
Rogez, Marcelle, 1909-1993.
Cross, Eric.
Tavares, Arthur.
Stretton, George.
Thomson, H.
Porter, Brereton.
Robertson, D.
Wallace, Claude.
Pflager, Dorothy Holloway, 1900-1963.
McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
D'Abbes, Ingram.
Sherrie, Fenn.
Ansell, Eric.
Ege, Henrik.
Wills, J. Elder
Exclusive Supply Corporation.
Armand Hammer Productions.
British Lion Films.
Kino International Corporation.
SUBJECTS
African Americans -- Drama.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Musical films.
Feature films.