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Title Marian Anderson : The story of the voice that broke barriers / WETA, Washington, D.C. ; produced by Dante J. James ; written by Juan Williams.

Publication Info. West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [1998]
©1991

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Description 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.
Physical Medium 1/2 in.
Description analog
magnetic
stereo
VHS
Series White star
White star.
System Details VHS.
Credits Director of photography, Rick Malkames; editor, Anthony Black; narrator, Avery Brooks.
Summary A biography of virtuosa Marian Anderson from the time she sang spirituals as a child at the Union Baptist Church in Philadelphia to the beginning of her classical career in Europe in the 1930's, her return to the United States, her eventual appearance at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1955 (the first black person to perform there), to her retirement in 1965, "a national treasure".
Language Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Subject Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993.
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993.
African American women singers -- Biography.
African American women singers.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Biographies.
Added Author Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993.
James, Dante J.
Williams, Juan.
Brooks, Avery.
WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
Kultur International Films.
Added Title Story of the voice that broke barriers
ISBN 1561278513 : $19.95
Music No. 1851 Kultur