Richard Wright [videorecording] : Black boy / written, produced and directed by Madison Davis Lacy ; dramatic scenes directed by Horace Ové ; a Mississippi Educational Television/BBC production.

San Francisco : CA : California Newsreel, [2004]

English

Closed-captioned.

1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

PS3545.R815 Z8155 2004

Biographical sketch of African-American writer, Richard Wright. Includes a discussion of his literary works and the times in which he lived, weaving together dramatic recreations from Wright's work and recollections of friends and scholars. It follows Wright's journey from a childhood of poverty through the Chicago Black cultural renaissance of the 1930s, the Communist Party during the Depression, the MacCarthy-era, the American expatriate community in 1950s Paris and his final years.

Originally produced for television in 1994.
Duration on container and disc label: 86 min.
Narrator, J.A. Preston.

Photographer, Ngaio Killingsworth ; editor, Adam Zucker ; music, Randy Klein ; advisers, Michel Fabre ... [et al.].

DVD-R, NTSC.

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