Just got this email from Black documentary filmmaker St. Clair Bourne:
ROZ PAYNE ARCHIVES
Presents
THE BLACK PANTHER LIBRARY
3 Newsreel Films on the Black Panther Party
plus
A Massive Quantity of Rare and Exclusive material of
Exceptional Quality
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This is a large Box set of 4 disks each with 340 minutes.
The editing has been done.
I am looking for total donations of $4,000 to help pay for the color and sound correction and the making of the menu. The work will be done shortly. There are 12 hours of moving images and audio plus an extensive amount of photos and pdf’s . Following is a list of the chapters in the DVD.
Everyone who donates $50.00 or more will receive a copy of the DVD.
All donations made out to Green Valley Media are tax deductable.
Please mail donations to me.
Roz Payne
PO Box 164
Richmond, Vermont 005477
http://www.newsreel.us
roznews@aol.com
802 434 3172
Chapters of DVD
Newsreel Films
1) Off The Pigs [13:00]
2) Mayday [13:00]
3) Repression [13:00]
Newsreel Interviews (Newreel members talking about making the films,
working with the panthers and Newsreel)
5) The Falk Family [NY and Boston Newsreel)
6) Cindy Fitzpatrick [LA newsreel distributer]
7) Dozie and Gay [SF and NY Newsreel]
8 ) Gail Dolgin [ NY and SF Newsreel ]
9) Marilyn Buck [SF newsreel(filmed in Prison)]
10) Roz Payne (with John and Jane) { Founding members NY Newsreel and
Vermont NR distribution}
11) Excerpts from the Wheelock Academic conference on the Black Panthers
12) Young Lords [ Audio Only]
13) Huey and Gay Liberation [ Audio Only]
14) Ahmed Rahman [ Audio Only]
15) Wheelock Conversation: an extended conversation between Academics, Panthers, and Academic Panthers about a multitude of issues including violence and self-defense, specific local chapters, and historiography
16) Roz’s paper on Agent WAC, case agent who opened the original files on the BPP, and ensuing conversation
Excerpts from the BPP 35th Reunion
13) Reunion intro
14) Althea
15) Jericho Prison Movement
16) Jericho Table
17) Kathleen on East-West split and Cointelpro
18) Louisiana Woman 2: New Orleans shoot-out at Panther HQ
19) Orange shirt: effect of split on lower echelon and panther
inprisonment
20) Bigman [Audio Only]
21) Bob Boyle: cointelpro[Audio Only]
22) Bob Boyle 2: cointelpro
23) Akua Njeri: widow of Fred Hampton describes assassination
24) Gail Shaw: Panther Clinic and support work
25) Louisiana Woman [ Audio Only]
26) Philly Chapter [ Audio Only]
27) Reparations [ Audio Only]
28) Safiya Bukhari: Prisoners [ Audio Only]
29) Bobby Seale [ short shot then Audio Only]
30) Kathleen Cleaver Dinner: the Panthers 35 Years Reunion
Movement Lawyers tell stories about BPP legal cases
31) Liz Fink, includes discussion of Martin Sostre, Attica, and
winning Dhoruba bin Wahad’s freedom
32) Bob Boyle: Dhoruba and Panther prisoners
33) Bob Bloom: Panther 21 and Geronimo
34) Jessie Berman: BLA and other legal cases
35) Beverly Axelrod: Movement Lawyer: Got Cleaver out of jail,
Panthers, Soul on Ice and Aim
36) Jerry Lefcourt Panther 21
The FBI Special Agents
37) FBI agent Westley A. Swearingin: testified in court to get
release of 350,000 FBI documents on Panthers in the case of Dhoruba bin
Wahad. One of the only interviews he has given
38) Special FBI Agent WAC: Original Case Agent on the BPP, opened case
on the BPP, wrote THE semi-monthly reports with special sections
including racist and sexist gossip. This is the only interview that
FBI agent
DC and Marty Kenner
39) Donald Cox: Original Field Marshall, in charge of military
training, now in exile in france, wanted on charges in the US.
40) A cup of Coffee with Marty Kenner: Huey confidante and chief
Panther fundraiser
Additional Scanned Material:
Roz’s Photos
Other photographs (including Steven Shames and David Fenton)
FBI Cartoons (Cointelpro defamation of Panthers)
Best of FBI Docs
WAC’s Report to church committee
BPP Newspaper excerpts
Movement Papers (leaflets, posters, small press, other propaganda
excerpts)
Donations will also be made to Books Behind Bars and Human Rights Reasearch Fund to assist prisoners in small ways such as small commisary .
Roz Payne’s Archive
http://www.newsreel.us
Located Email Address: roznews@aol.com
802 434 3172
PO Box 164
Richmond, Vermont 05477