| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
| Event |
Originally produced by The Center for New American Media in 1979. |
| Summary |
Beginning in 1977, Andrew Kolker and Louis Alvarez produced a series of half-hour documentaries about New Orleans' challenges called Being poor in New Orleans. The programs were broadcast on WGNO-TV (Channel 26) and produced under the auspices of NOVAC, the New Orleans Video Access Center. Presenting some of the first independent TV documentaries made in New Orleans, the series was a pathbreaking look at New Orleans' problems and raised a number of issues about inequality that had not been aired in the city's media at the time. All three films deal with topics that are still a part of New Orleans' everyday challenges, while presenting a time-capsule of the people and the streets of the city almost forty years ago. Produced and directed by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Poor -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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| Local Subject |
Poor people -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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| Subject |
New Orleans (La.) -- Economics.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Alvarez, Louis, director, producer.
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Kolker, Andrew, director, producer.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1098693 Kanopy |
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