Creative Person; 55; Duro Ladipo
- Series
- Creative Person
- Episode Number
- 55
- Episode
- Duro Ladipo
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- National Educational Television and Radio Center
- Contributing Organization
- Thirteen WNET (New York, New York)
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-91fj8g85
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Duro Ladipo is the founder, director, playwright, composer and principal male actor of the Duro Ladipo Traveling Theatre Company of Oshogbo, Nigeria. Duro Ladipo's interest in drama grew from his joining an amateur theatre group organized by his school principal. Later he gained notice as a musician when he began to compose music for All Saint's Church in Oshogbo. Duro Ladipo describes the motivation for his early church composition in these terms: "I felt like changing from the monotonous tunes of the harmonium and the piano, with this western music - everything sounded the same every day, every week, I said,AeP There should be drums here." Ladipo's interest in both drama and music soon attracted him to Folk Opera, a new theatrical medium which began to emerge about 20 years ago in the Yoruba provinces of Western Nigeria. The text of Yoruba Fold Opera is usually sung to the accompaniment of traditional Yoruba drums along with a great deal of dancing. In 1962 Ladipo founded the Duro Ladipo Traveling Theatre Company, a professional group which performs throughout Yoruba country. In 1963 he received the coveted Nigerian Federal Cultural Achievement Award for his play "Oba-Koso." In 1964 the company performed with outstanding success at the International Arts Festival in Berlin. In 1965 Ladipo's group toured Great Britain and the European continent. For this program, NET dispatched a camera crew to live and work with Duro Ladipo and his group, following the company on a typical tour of Yoruba villages where plays were performed nightly. The highlight of this filming experience is a command performance before the Alafin of Oyo, the traditional ruler of the Yoruba people. The film also features scenes of the major artistic achievements to have taken place in Africa in recent years. The Creative Person: Duro Ladipo is a 1967 production of National Educational Television. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- This series focuses on the private vision of the creative person. Each program is devoted to a 20th century artist whose special qualities of imagination, taste, originality, intelligence, craftsmanship, and individuality have marked him as a pace-setter in his field. These artists --- whose fields span the entire gamut of the art world --- include filmmaker Jean Renoir, poet John Ciardi, industrial designer Raymond Loewy, Hollywood producer-director King Vidor, noted Broadway couple Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, artist Leonard Baskin, humorist James Thurber, satirist Robert Osborn, Indian musician Ravi Shankar, poet P. G. Wodehouse, painter Georges Braque, former ballet star Olga Spessivtzeva, Rudolf Bing, and Marni Nixon. The format for each program has been geared to the individual featured; Performance, interview, and documentary technique are employed interchangeably. The Creative Person is a 1965 production of National Educational Television. The N.E.T. producers are Jack Sameth, Jac Venza, Lane Slate, Thomas Slevin, Brice Howard, Craig Gilbert, and Jim Perrin. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1967-06-25
- Date
- 1967-00-00
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Documentary
- Performance
- Topics
- Performing Arts
- Theater
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Camera Operator: Marner, Eugene
Director: Dor, Henry A.
Editor: Barouch, Itzhak
Editor: Marner, Eugene
Editor: Dore, Henri
Executive Producer: Slate, Lane
Guest: Ladipo, Duro
Performing Group: Duro Ladipo Traveling Theatre Company
Producer: Dor, Henry A.
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
Production Unit: Media Library and Archives
Sound: Marner, Carole
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
Identifier: wnet_aacip_5541 (WNET Archive)
Format: Betacam: SP
Generation: Master
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WGBH
Identifier: 331274 (WGBH Barcode)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Print
Duration: 00:28:57
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Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Identifier: [request film based on title] (Indiana University)
Format: 16mm film
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Creative Person; 55; Duro Ladipo,” 1967-06-25, Thirteen WNET, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 24, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-91fj8g85.
- MLA: “Creative Person; 55; Duro Ladipo.” 1967-06-25. Thirteen WNET, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 24, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-91fj8g85>.
- APA: Creative Person; 55; Duro Ladipo. Boston, MA: Thirteen WNET, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-91fj8g85