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Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues (1981)

ALL 01/01/1981 (en) Documentary 29 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1981
  • Production
    University of California Berkeley
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

Marlon Riggs and Peter Webster’s thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and ’50s, when an influx of African American shipyard workers mostly hailing from Louisiana and Texas arrived in the Bay Area. Combining vintage photographs, archival footage, interviews, and performances at venues like Eli’s Mile High Club, Riggs and Webster chronicle Oakland’s vibrant past while revealing an uncertain present.

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  1. J.P. Phillips

    Narrator

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Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues (1981) 29 Min

ALL 01/01/1981 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 01/01/1981
  • Production
    University of California Berkeley
  • Original title Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Marlon Riggs and Peter Webster’s thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and ’50s, when an influx of African American shipyard workers mostly hailing from Louisiana and Texas arrived in the Bay Area. Combining vintage photographs, archival footage, interviews, and performances at venues like Eli’s Mile High Club, Riggs and Webster chronicle Oakland’s vibrant past while revealing an uncertain present.

  1. Marlon Riggs, Peter Webster

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Marlon Riggs, Peter Webster

    Editor

  4. Marlon Riggs, Peter Webster

    Producer



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