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The Bombing of Osage Avenue
(1986)
Information about this record
| Call no.: |
VHS F158.9.N4 B65 1986
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| Title: |
The Bombing of Osage Avenue
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| Originally produced: |
1986
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| Format: |
VHS
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| Summary: |
Describes the confrontation between Philadelphia Police and members of the MOVE organization on Mother's Day, 1985, which left 11 men, women and children members of MOVE dead and 61 homes destroyed by fire. The events are situated in the history of Blacks in Philadelphia, the MOVE organization, and the Cobbs Creek neighborhood. All this is explored through historical photographs, interviews and footage of the confrontation and its resulting hearings.
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| Credits: |
from WHYY ; executive producer, David Othmer ; producer/director, Louis Massiah ; writer/narrator Toni Cade Bambara.
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| Publication: |
[Philadelphia, PA] : Scribe Video Center, c1986.
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| Details: |
1 VHS (58 min.) : sound, color with black & white scenes
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| Studio(s): |
WHYY (Television station : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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| Director(s): |
Massiah, Louis
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| Screenwriter(s): |
Bambara, Toni Cade
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| Producer(s): |
Massiah, Louis
Othmer, David
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| Production: |
videographers, Keith Miller, Eric Jennhenn; editor, Michael Black.
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| Subjects: |
MOVE (Organization)
African Americans Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Black nationalism Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Violence Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Philadelphia (Pa.) Race relations.
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| Genre: |
Documentary films.
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