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Additional authors

1. Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Description

1. 4 videodiscs (83 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Mr. Campbell describes his earlier work as a theatre and concert producer and his present work with the Sickle Cell Disease Foundation of Greater New York. Education and youth in Beaumont, Texas; move to New York, 1928; second wife, Muriel Rahn; formation of Rose McClendon Players; work as producer of Black USO shows, 1942-1946; discrimination against blacks in television and radio industries; television boycott, Feb. 1950 organized by Coordinating Council for Negro Performers; trips to Africa as field consultant in Dept. of African Affairs, State Department, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, 1957-1965; experiences as producer - fight with Billy Rose over salary for Muriel Rahn in Carmen Jones; first contract negotiated for Ossie Davis after World War II; setting of pay levels by producers during USO productions; different productions sent abroad and in U.S. for USO; concert performance business after World War II, booking Muriel Rahn and the Columbia Artists Management monopoly; finding audiences for young black artists; work for Sickle Cell Anemia and the activities of the Sickle Cell Disease Foundation of Greater New York.

Subject

1. Theater > Production and direction > United States
2. Campbell, Dick, 1903-1994 > Interviews
3. Theatrical producers and directors > United States > Biography
4. Oral histories
5. Filmed interivews
6. Theater > United States > Biography
7. Rahn, Muriel
8. African American theater
9. African Americans in television broadcasting
10. Biographies
11. Nonfiction films
12. Black films and programs
13. Sickle Cell Disease Foundation of Greater New York
14. Interviews
15. African Americans in the performing arts

Genre/Form

1. Nonfiction films.
2. Filmed interivews.
3. Oral histories.
4. Interviews.
5. Biographies.
6. Black films and programs.

Call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-1446

Biography (note)

1. Mr. Campbell was a theatrical producer.

Author

1. Campbell, Dick, 1903-1994, interviewee.

Title

1. An Interview with Dick Campbell/ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by Jean Blackwell Hutson.

Imprint

1. 1982-05-05.

Publisher

1. New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1982.

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video

Type of carrier

1. videodisc

Event

1. Recorded May 5, 1982 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.

Biography

1. Mr. Campbell was a theatrical producer.

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1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Campbell, Dick, 1903-1994, interviewee.
2. Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998, interviewer.
3. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Research call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-1446