The HistoryMakers video oral history with Charles Hobson.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Charles Hobson.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 30 min., 59 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Hobson, Charles, -- 1936-2020 -- Interviews. African Americans -- Interviews. African Americans. Internet videos. Interviews. Nonfiction films. Oral histories. Oral histories. Internet videos. Nonfiction films.
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. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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.

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 30 min., 59 sec.)) : sound, color. 023059
Playing Time:	02:30:59
Production Credits:	Videographer, Matthew Hickey.