Fiction
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New York, New York : Sony Wonder, [2004]
©2004
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2 videodiscs (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Full screen
Disc 1. Film -- disc 2. Special features
The history of blacks in the South as seen through the eyes of a 110-year-old former slave
Based on the novel of the same title by Ernest J. Gaines
Special features: The making of The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (behind the scenes footage, new interviews with Ernest J. Gaines, Odetta, director John Korty, producers Rick Rosenberg and Bob Christiansen and more); The writing of The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Ernest J. Gaines gives an in-depth look at the people and places that inspired his award-winning novel); The oral tradition (scholars explain the importance of oral story-telling); Best special and best actress Emmy clips
Music by Fred Karlin ; director of photography, James Crabe ; film editor, Sidney Levin ; production designer, Michael Haller
Cicely Tyson, Richard A. Dysart, Katherine Helmond, Michael Murphy, Barbara Chaney, Roy Poole, Josephine Premice, Thalmus Rasulala, Collin Wilcox-Horne, Beatrice Winde, Odetta
Originally produced as a television movie in 1973
Not rated
DVD; NTSC; region 1; Dolby Digital
Closed-captioned
Winner of 9 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Special, Best Actress and Best Teleplay