The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Resource Information

The work The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sno-Isle Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Statement of responsibility

produced by Robert W. Christiansen and Rick Rosenberg ; screenplay by Tracy Keenan Wynn ; directed by John Korty ; Tomorrow Entertainment, Inc

Title variation

Miss Jane Pittman

Contributor

• Korty, John
• Levin, Sidney
• Sony Wonder (Firm)
• Classic Media, Inc
• Murphy, Michael, 1938-
• Odetta, 1930-2008
• Crabe, James
• Premice, Josephine
• Rasulala, Thalmus, 1939-1991
• Rosenberg, Rick
• Tyson, Cicely
• Wilcox Paxton, Collin, 1935-2009
• Winde, Beatrice
• Wynn, Tracy Keenan
• Poole, Roy, 1924-1986
• Dysart, Richard
• Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019
• Haller, Michael
• Christiansen, Bob, (Robert W.)
• Helmond, Katherine
• Chaney, Barbara
• Karlin, Fred
• Tomorrow Entertainment (Firm)

Actor

• Winde, Beatrice
• Wilcox Paxton, Collin, 1935-2009
• Tyson, Cicely
• Rasulala, Thalmus, 1939-1991
• Premice, Josephine
• Poole, Roy, 1924-1986
• Odetta, 1930-2008
• Murphy, Michael, 1938-
• Dysart, Richard
• Chaney, Barbara
• Helmond, Katherine

Director of photography

• Crabe, James

Editor of moving image work

• Levin, Sidney

Film director

• Korty, John

Film distributor

• Sony Wonder (Firm)

Film producer

• Christiansen, Bob, (Robert W.)
• Rosenberg, Rick

Production company

• Tomorrow Entertainment (Firm)

Production designer

• Haller, Michael

Publisher

• Classic Media, Inc

Screenwriter

• Wynn, Tracy Keenan

Subject

• Older women
• Older women -- Louisiana -- Drama
• Slavery
• Southern States
• Southern States -- History -- Drama
• United States
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• African American women
• Television adaptations
• African American women -- Louisiana -- Drama
• African Americans
• African Americans -- Drama
• Biographical television programs
• Civil rights movements
• Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- Drama
• Drama
• Dramatic films
• Enslavement -- United States -- Drama
• Fiction television programs
• Fiction television programs
• Gaines, Ernest J, 1933-2019
• Gaines, Ernest J, 1933-2019 -- Television adaptations
• History
• Louisiana
• Made-for-TV movies
• Made-for-TV movies

Genre

• Biographical television programs
• Television adaptations
• Fiction television programs
• Dramatic films
• Made-for-TV movies
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Drama
• History

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

The history of blacks in the South as seen through the eyes of a 110-year-old former slave

Awards note

Winner of 9 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Special, Best Actress and Best Teleplay.

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Music by Fred Karlin ; director of photography, James Crabe ; film editor, Sidney Levin ; production designer, Michael Haller

Date time place

Originally produced as a television movie in 1973

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

LC call number

• PN1992.8.B55
• PS3557.A355

LC item number

• A986 2004
• A85 2004

NLM call number

L2D 58953

NLM item number

Sony Wonder

PerformerNote

Cicely Tyson, Richard A. Dysart, Katherine Helmond, Michael Murphy, Barbara Chaney, Roy Poole, Josephine Premice, Thalmus Rasulala, Collin Wilcox-Horne, Beatrice Winde, Odetta

Runtime

150

Technique

live action