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Title:

Uptown at the Apollo [videorecording]

Format:

[videorecording]

Publisher:

Tony Brown Productions,

Copyright Date:

197-

Description:

1 videocassette (26 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Apollo Theatre--History.
Afro-American entertainers.
Theaters--Harlem.--Harlem.

Other Authors:

Brown, Tony.
Tony Brown Productions, Inc.

Notes:

"Show # 728r." Originally broadcast on PBS as a segment of: Tony Brown's journal. Title from cassette label. Host: Tony Brown.

Summary:

Through pictures, film clips and interviews this program tells the history of the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York. Beginning in the 1920s under an earlier name and with a white audience, it changed ownership and its name to the 125th Street Apollo in 1934. It became the starting place (through its amateur nights) and a showcase for the black entertainment industry.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)32021057

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)