Creative Person; 44; Gwendolyn Brooks

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Series
Creative Person
Episode
44
Episode
Gwendolyn Brooks
Producing Organization
National Educational Television and Radio Center
WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
National Educational Television and Radio Center
WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
Contributing Organization
Thirteen WNET (New York, New York)
Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri)
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
AAPB ID
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NOLA Code
CRPN
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Description
Episode Description
Gwendolyn Brooks is a Chicago poet molded by the city just as Carl Sandburg was. She has said of herself and he work: ?My poetry has often been called Negro poetry and I am considered a Negro poet. It?s true that I am a Negro ? I hope I am a poet ? but when I begin to write a poem I don?t have the special social classification in mind. I?m impelled by an emotion or a thought and I try to do the best I can by my emotion or thought, and I try to put as much of myself as I possibly can on the paper. That is my governing desire. Of course, being Negro and seeing more of Negroes all of my life than of others, there will be poems that refer to Negroes.? Gwendolyn Brooks received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950. She also was named one of the ?Ten Women of the Year? by Mademoiselle magazine in 1945, cited by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1946, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Writing in 1946-47. Miss Brooks speaks of the sources of her material ? the various and often contrasting sections of Chicago and the pressures of crowded urban living. She discusses the self-imposed discipline of a poet?s life, her delight at being awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and her plans for future work. Interwoven in the half-hour are her readings of excerpts from her works ?The Womanhood,? ?Annie Allen,? ?A Street in Bronzeville,? ?Beverly Hills, Chicago,? and ?Ballad of Rudolph Reed.? The longer narrative poems are read over film segments photographed in the areas which inspired them, with actors recreating the intensely human situations that are the source of much of Gwendolyn Brooks? work. The Creative Person: Gwendolyn Brooks is a 1967 National Educational Televisions production, produced for NET by WTTW, the educational television affiliate situation in Chicago, Illinois. (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
1967-04-09
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Talk Show
Topics
Literature
Race and Ethnicity
Rights
Published Work: This work was offered for sale and/or rent in 1972.
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:28:50
Credits
Director: Aronoff, Aida
Guest: Brooks, Gwendolyn
Performer: Brooks, Gwendolyn
Performer: Brooks, Gwendolyn
Producer: Smith, Roger
Producer: Kassel, Virginia
Producer: Kassel, Virginia
Producer: Smith, Roger
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
Producing Organization: WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
Producing Organization: WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
Identifier: wnet_aacip_5537 (WNET Archive)
Format: Betacam: SP
Generation: Master
Film & Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis
Identifier: 5409-1-1 (MAVIS Carrier Number)
Duration: 0:28:41
Film & Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis
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Duration: 0:28:41
Film & Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis
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Color: Color
Duration: 00:28:50
Film & Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis
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Film & Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis
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Duration: 00:29:14
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Film & Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis
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Duration: 00:29:14
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Library of Congress
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Citations
Chicago: “Creative Person; 44; Gwendolyn Brooks,” 1967-04-09, Thirteen WNET, Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 14, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-151-mg7fq9qs2m.
MLA: “Creative Person; 44; Gwendolyn Brooks.” 1967-04-09. Thirteen WNET, Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 14, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-151-mg7fq9qs2m>.
APA: Creative Person; 44; Gwendolyn Brooks. Boston, MA: Thirteen WNET, Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-151-mg7fq9qs2m