VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The Menil Collection, the Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Southwest Alternate Media Project present  The Whole World Was Watching Film and Television Series July 12, 14, 19, & 21, 2011 in the Freed Auditorium at the Glassell School, 5101 Montrose Blvd. Curated by Gerald O'Grady and presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Whole World Was Watching: Civil Rights-Era Photographs from Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil at the Menil Collection and the African American Library at the Gregory School.

Television brought the civil rights movement into the livingrooms of everyday Americans in the 1960's, exposing them to injustices against African Americans in the segregated South. “The Whole World Was Watching” will showcase films that documented their struggle for equality and were instrumental in raising public awareness.

Film Program I
Thursday, July 14, 2011, 7:00 p.m.

Charles Guggenheim, Nine from Little Rock, 1964, 20 minutes
Academy Award-winning short about school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas (1957).

Jack Willis, The Streets of Greenwood [Mississippi], 1963, 20 minutes
Filmed by Ed Emshwiller, it records a SNCC [Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee] voter registration drive, featuring an appearance by the young Bob Dylan.

Ed Emshwiller, March Footage, 1963, 9 minutes
Recently discovered at Anthology Film Archives in New York City, this rare color footage of the March on Washington, August 1963, will have its first public screening.

James Blue, The March, 1963, 37 minutes
The most important film produced on the March on Washington follows the preparation of the participants and culminates with Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech. James Blue, one of America’s premier documentary filmmakers, was a founder
of the Rice University Media Center.