African Burial Ground: An American Discovery (1994) Ossie Davids End Ruby Dee 1)
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Question
African Burial Ground: An American Discovery (1994) Ossie Davids End Ruby Dee 1)Narrator 2)summary 3)period of time addressed in the film 4)what academic disciplines does this film address? 5)film location 6)Identify key people in the film 7)scholars experts in film, what were 8) key points of information that you learned from this film? 9)what the single most important fact or idea that you learned from this film? 10)what the least informative part of the film? 11)if you could advise the filmmaker on a 2018/2019 remake of this film 12)what 3 suggestions would you make in order to improve or update the film? 13)what keywords would you use to describe this film? 14)what in your opinion is the "message" of this documentary film?
Explanation / Answer
1) Its first documented in the film by Lena horne and narrator was his daughter Gail Lumet Buckley.
2) African Burial ground is a monument in lower Manhatten , USA and that place has the history of buring 400 peoples who were of African descent , in the late 17th and 18th centuries. They were the ssaves there , introduced by the Dutch peoples and those slavery system was runned there for almost 200 years.
3) Time was 16th March 1997 when the film was first documented.
4) This film has four sub parts to understand the matter thoroughly and which was prepared for the high school students of USA.
5) Location of the film was lower manhatten where the spot is there for buring .
6) Eric V Tait Jr, veteran journalist and documentarian.
7) Dr. Sherril D wilson , an US based anthropologist is the scholar expert in this film .
8) This film shares the ideas of US history of colonial empires and the slavery system and how it contributed in todays modern US society.
9) Introduction of slavery by the Dutch peoples. This case is the not only case , several other slavery system was also there in the other parts of the world and most of them are introduced by the British peoples.
10) Facts are not cleared for which they got burried .
11 & 12) Incase of remake of this film , i would suggest that to make the film more interesting by giving more insights into it rather than the facts which are already known to the peoples. 2ndly, film should be a continous one as like a commercial film and 3rdly it should make understand the peoples its contributions in todays modern society of USA.
13) transformed slavery.
14) Message in this film is that what happened on those ancient days were not good and its impact on our society.
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