Time and Dreams is a 1976 documentary created by Mort Jordan, a graduate student at Temple University,[2] about residents of Greene County, Alabama and its changing racial history.[3]
| Time and Dreams | |
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| Directed by | Mort Jordan |
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Running time | 51 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Summary
editFilmed in black-and-white, it features voiceovers of white residents reflecting on political and racial changes in Greene County in the wake of the civil rights movement.[4]
Reception
editThe film was a runner-up for a Student Academy Award.[4][5] A review from 1979 by Robert Hemenway described its importance as a document of "attitudes toward tradition" in the South, but criticised the "concentration on white perceptions of blacks, leaving only the narrator to expose flaws in such visions".[6]
Rediscovery
editBesides the rare screening,[7] the film remained relatively obscure and had no iMDb listing, until the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 2017. It had initially been recommended by the manager of Temple University's film archive, Leonard Guercio.[4] The Registry called it "a unique and personal elegiac approach to the civil rights movement."[2]
References
edit- ^ "Times and Dreams"-2017 additions to the National Film Registry-CBS News
- ^ a b "Brief Descriptions and Expanded Essays of National Film Registry Titles". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
- ^ Mort Jordan discusses "Time and Dreams", a documentary on race in Alabama-Tuscaloosa News on YouTube
- ^ a b c "Alum's Work Selected for National Film Registry". Temple University. January 3, 2018. Retrieved December 24, 2018.
- ^ Tuscaloosa News, Mort Jordan discusses "Time and Dreams," a documentary on race in Alabama, retrieved 2018-12-24
- ^ Hemenway, Robert (January–March 1979). "Review". The Journal of American Folklore. 92 (363): 131–132. doi:10.2307/538877. JSTOR 538877.
- ^ "MoMA TO CONCLUDE SUMMER FILM SERIES WITH SELECTIONS FROM THE CIRCULATING FILM LIBRARY" (PDF). www.moma.org. July 1984. Retrieved 2018-12-24.