The HistoryMakers video oral history with Charles Hobson.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 30 min., 59 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11312844
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Charles Hobson
Charles Hobson
Other authors / contributors:Hobson, Charles, 1936-2020, interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Recorded Brooklyn, New York 2013 October 23.
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Summary:Television producer Charles Hobson was born on June 23, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights neighborhoods in Brooklyn. In 1960, he graduated from Brooklyn College. In 1963, Hobson was hired to host a radio show at WBAI where he was later promoted to production director. Hobson was then hired to produce for ABC-TV, WABC-TV in New York, and WETA-TV in Washington DC. From 1968 to 1986, he produced Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant, Like It Is, From Jumpstreet: A Story of Black Music, and The Africans. In the 1980s, Hobson launched his own production company, Vanguard Documentaries, which produced a number of documentaries and shows, including Porgy and Bess: An American Voice, Negroes with Guns, and Harlem in Montmartre: Paris Jazz. Hobson was awarded an Emmy, the Japan Prize 'Special Citation,' and the Golden Eagle Award from the Council on International Nontheatrical Events.