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Additional authors

1. Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998.
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.

Description

1. 4 videodiscs (DVD) (74 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Artist, writer, and actor, Bruce Nugent discusses life during the Harlem Renaissance. He tells of his friendships and acquaintances and provides recollections of a number of artists active during the Harlem Renaissance including Langston Huges, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Jean Toomer, William Waring Cuney, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Alexander Gumby and Zora Neal Hurston. Nugent also discusses his work as as a writer and painter and the history of the literary journal "Fire!!"

Subject

1. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century
2. McKay, Claude, 1890-1948 > Influence
3. Filmed interviews
4. African American arts
5. African American artists
6. Documentary films
7. Thurman, Wallace, 1902-1934 > Influence
8. Oral histories
9. Harlem Renaissance
10. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > History
11. Fire!! (New York, N.Y.)
12. Cuney, William Waring, 1906-1976 > Influence
13. Hurston, Zora Neale > Influence
14. Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966 > Influence
15. Gumby, L. S. Alexander, 1885-1961 > Influence
16. American literature > African American authors
17. Locke, Alain, 1885-1954 > Influence
18. Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967 > Influence
19. African American authors
20. Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 > Influence

Genre/Form

1. Oral histories.
2. Documentary films.
3. Interviews.
4. Nonfiction films.

Call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-226

Event (note)

1. Filmed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on April 14, 1982.

Terms of use (note)

1. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce; contact repository.

Author

1. Nugent, Bruce, 1906-1987. Interviewee

Title

1. Oral history interview with Bruce Nugent/ conducted by Jean Blackwell Hutson.

Imprint

1. New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1982.

Event

1. Filmed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on April 14, 1982.

Terms of use

1. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce; contact repository.

Local note

1. Archival original in Sc Visual VRB-2002 (U-matic videotape); VHS service copy in Sc Visual VRA-72.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998. Interviewer
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.

Research call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-226
2. Sc Visual VRB-2002 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-72.