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Have you heard from Johannesburg? [Part 4], Fair play / Clarity Films presents ; Connie Field film ; produced and directed by Connie Field ; writers, Connie Field, Gregory Scharpen.
LIBRA DVD 022 377
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in sports--South Africa.
- Discrimination in sports.
- Athletes, Black.
- Social conditions.
- Boycotts.
- Sports--Political aspects.
- Sports.
- South Africa.
- Sports--Political aspects--South Africa.
- Boycotts--South Africa.
- Athletes, Black--South Africa--Social conditions.
- Apartheid--South Africa--History.
- Apartheid.
- History.
- Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa.
- Anti-apartheid movements.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Documentary television programs.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color with black and white seq. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Anamorphic widescreen.
- Other Title:
- Fair play. Story four
- Have you heard from Johannesburg. Story 4, Fair play, 1958-1981
- Place of Publication:
- Franklin Lakes, NJ : Clarity Educational Productions, Inc., [2010]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, all regions [i.e.: Regions 1-9]; stereo audio
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- Summary:
- "Faced with governments reluctant to take meaningful action against the apartheid regime, athletes and activists around the world hit white South Africa where it hurts: on the playing field. International boycotts against apartheid sports teams help bring the human rights crisis in South Africa to the forefront of global attention and sever white South Africans' cultural ties to the West. Knowing that fellow blacks in South Africa were denied even the most basic human rights--let alone the right to participate in international sports competitions--African nations refuse to compete with all-white South African teams, boycotting the Olympics and creating a worldwide media spectacle that forces the International Olympic committee to ban apartheid teams from future games. The Africa-led coalition leads the fight to exclude South Africa from soccer, boxing, track, cycling, judo, fencing, gymnastics, volleyball and numerous other competitions, barring South African teams from nearly all sports events by the 1970s. Only South Africa's world champion rugby team remains, and citizens in key western countries where rugby is played take to the fields to close the last door on apartheid sports. The sports campaign becomes the anti-apartheid movement's first victory and succeeds in culturally isolating the white minority in an arena of passionate importance"--Container
- Participant:
- Narrator: Alfre Woodard.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Tom Hurwitz; editors, Gregory Scharpen, Gary Weimberg; music, Todd Boekelhide.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the theatrical release version of the documentary film produced in 2010. Also included is the 52 minute version of the film which served as one episode of the documentary television series.
- Special features: 52-minute version, four additional scenes, TV and web trailer.
- Documentary covers the period of 1958-1981.
- Aspect ratio 16:9.
- OCLC:
- 657151819
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