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Articles by Sheila Curran Bernard
“Come Prepared to Travel. Bring Guitar.”
After a stint in prison, Lead Belly teamed up with musicologist John A. Lomax Sheila Curran Bernard In 1933, while touring southern states to record folk music on behalf of the Library of Congress, white folklorist John Lomax and his teenaged son, Alan, stopped at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
BRING JUDGMENT DAY
Essential for musicologists and fans of folk music. A new biography of the Black musician Huddie Ledbetter seeks to reclaim him from “the Lead Belly mythology.” Promulgated by folklorist John Lomax, who brought Ledbetter to a national stage, both moniker and myth do the “talented and multifaceted” performer an injustice, argues Emmy and Peabody winner Bernard convincingly.
Eyes on the Rights: The Rising Cost of Putting History on Screen
In the summer of 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, traveled south to Mississippi to visit relatives. Perhaps on a dare, the 14-year-old made a comment to a young white woman. For this, he was kidnapped from his uncle's home by two white men, tortured and killed. Images of Till's battered corpse, and the acquittal of his killers by an all-white jury, shocked the nation. Three months later, a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama signaled the start of the modern civil rights movement.
Copyright and Public Domain: An Updated Primer
By Sheila Curran Bernard and Kenn Rabin Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from the second edition of Bernard and Rabin’s Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker’s Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music, published by Focal Press in May 2020. Wonderful news: On January 1, 2020, after a period of 20 years—during which copyright expirations were frozen—a treasure trove of materials copyrighted in the United States in 1924 finally entered the public domain.
Archival Storytelling
Praise for Archival Storytelling, 1st edition "The excellent new resource, Archival Storytelling, is really two books in one: a detailed how-to guide for filmmakers on the process of researching, acquiring, and clearing rights to archival materials; and a deeper exploration of the implications, ethical and creative, of using these materials to tell new stories." —Grace Lile, American Archivist (The Society of American Archivists) "Kenn Rabin and Sheila Curran Bernard have written an important...
Plan would protect 21 coral hot spots in Gulf of Mexico
A plan to protect corals in the Gulf of Mexico is close to becoming a law, drawing cheers from environmental groups who believe leaving the corals alone would help vulnerable ocean ecosystems to grow. The plan would create 21 protected areas off the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Thirteen of the areas would carry new commercial fishing restrictions, and that has attracted the attention of fishing groups, who want the government to take a cautious approach.
Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale (2010)
Photos Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title? Learn more More Like This Documentary | Crime 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X In The Family I Had, a mother recalls how her brilliant teenage son came to shatter their idyllic family through one horribly violent and shocking act.
Slavery By Another Name
You are here Home Films Slavery By Another Name Film Synopsis It was a shocking reality that often went unacknowledged, then and now: A huge system of forced, unpaid labor, mostly affecting Southern black men, that lasted until World War II.
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