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The singing stream series : the life and legacy of Mrs. Bertha Landis from Creedmoor, North Carolina / directed by Tom Davenport and produced with the Landis family grandchildren with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Davenport, Tom, film director.
Landis, Bertha, on-screen participant.
Golden Echoes (Musical group), on-screen participant.
Davenport Films, publisher, production company.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Landis, Bertha.
Landis, Bertha--Family.
Landis family.
African American families--North Carolina--Biography.
African American families.
African American families--North Carolina--Music.
Gospel music--North Carolina.
Gospel music.
Families--North Carolina.
Families.
Music.
North Carolina.
Genre:
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Biographies.
Music.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (58 minutes; 54 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
4 3/4 in. stamping
Other Title:
Life and legacy of Mrs. Bertha Landis from Creedmoor, North Carolina
Place of Publication:
Delaplane, VA : Davenport Films, [2016]
System Details:
DVD, NTSC, Region 1.
digital optical
NTSC
video file region 1
DVD video
Summary:
The life and leg̀acy of Mrs. Bertha Landis from Creedmoor, North Carolina and 100 years of an American family told through song, stories, and scenes of daily life.
Contents:
A singing stream : a Black family chronicle / directed and produced by Tom Davenport with Allen Tullos, Daniel Patterson (1985, 58 min.)
A singing stream : reunion, the grandchildren (2015, 54 min)
Funeral of Bertha Landis (2000)
Participant:
A singing stream, a Black family chronicle: with Bertha Landis and her sons John, Claude, Robert, Fleming, Tony, Truezell, Zenas and her daughters Doshie Winston, Jesse Mae Tharrington, Priscilla Daniel. With performance by the Golden Echoes.
Notes:
Videodisc release of the motion pictures produced in 1985 and 2015.
Title from container.
Widescreen and full screen.
Special features: When my work is over: the life and stories of Miss Louis Anderson, 1921-1994.
Contains:
Container of: Singing stream, a black family chronicle (Motion picture)
Container of: Singing stream, reunion, the grandchildren (Motion picture)
OCLC:
948693637
Publisher Number:
9781888522380

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