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James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

Karen Thorsen

For years the authoritative film biography of James Baldwin, this newly restored and remastered documentary gathers together scores of rare archival footage of Baldwin and his contemporaries to shape this remarkable account of his life and work.

DIRECTOR
Karen Thorsen
YEAR
1989
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
86 minutes
FORMAT
DCP
START DATE
September 14, 2015

For years the authoritative film biography of James Baldwin, this newly restored and remastered documentary, directed by Karen Thorsen and co-produced by Bill Miles & Douglas K. Dempsey, gathers together scores of rare archival footage of Baldwin and his contemporaries to shape this remarkable account of his life and work. Film Restoration and Digital Remastering made possible by The Ford Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, Maysles Documentary Center, Stan & Joanne Marder, Goldcrest Post. Special thanks to Curator Shola Lynch of Moving Image & Recorded Sound Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where The Price of the Ticket Collection is archived. 

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