Video: Hands, searching through the archives (ideally Jamar’s)
(video might include other indicators of where he is, like beginning by looking around room or entering room but from perspective of Jamar ala UK comedy Peep Show)
End Part I
Image: Mayo at plow
More graduating class images
Additional images as current storyboard
Text below over images indicating passage of time and vitality of campus over that time
Audio: pages flipping Suggestion: We should consider capturing footage and narration from stand-in and do our edits THEN call Jamar in for new footage for final cut later so we aren’t asking him blind (and he can see rough cut and knows what we want).
We need to knowwhat we need and how it will look/work.
Same images as current storyboard and as appearing in above, perhaps
*Mayo at desk, posting with faculty, first graduating class, early graduation programs indicating dates obviously and etc.
Video, continued, close up of images appearing in current storyboard indicating passage of time in campus history
“I Searched by Myself”
Audio: music begins
Audio:
I searched for images of myself in the historic photos of ET. My assignment was a remix of existing artifacts from the archives. I wanted to write about my people. I wanted to see faces like mine in the historical photos of the campus. Black students like me.
Black athletes like me.
Source: Jamar
Popcorn:
From the beginning, as David Gold argues, “Mayo sought to
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NOTE: Try to pace images at no more than three seconds each
In 1889, William L. Mayo, a rouge educator from Kentucky, established this teacher training school for the area’s white farmers and their children with the mandate that “any person, of whatever age, wealth, or previous advantages” who desired a college education could have one, “regardless of their ability to pay”
( Catalog , 1908).
Source: Carter, CCC 2012
Like any such institutional across the Jim
Crow South, however, “any person” meant “any white person.”
Source: as above
Basketball photos (x2-3) indicating team changing over time but still white
Football celebrations over time, perhaps the Tangerine Bowl as before and maybe showing something from dedication of new stadium, etc. (Gee images)
Band images as before
Images of dances, as before
Classroom images, as before
Images:
Old South Week as before
Old South and
Down South Week
No image (screen goes dark)
Images: as previously with Jamar’s video, following with an image or overlay of civil
Text: Q from CP on race as “absent presence” or something from Cox on same
Overlay (or splice in) with video from archive.org (blackface, minstral, comedy shorthand)
Audio: I did not see myself in photos of the basketball team.
Audio: There were no faces like mine on the football field.
Audio: I didn’t see myself in the band
Audio: at the social events
Audio: in the classroom
Eventually I found them
Cue new music bed? make [the University] integral to the community” by providing local citizens with extensive rhetorical training (Gold 122).
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rights movement as shown in Jennifers’ current storyboard
Images: as previously with Jamar’s video, following with an image or overlay of civil rights movement as shown in Jennifers’ current storyboard
Images: as previously with Jamar’s video, following with an image or overlay of civil rights movement as shown in Jennifers’ current storyboard
Images: as previously with Jamar’s video, following with an image or overlay of civil rights movement as shown in Jennifers’ current storyboard
Images: as previously with Jamar’s video, following with an image or overlay of civil rights movement as shown in Jennifers’ current storyboard
Fade to black
End Part II
Repeat as in beginning, with images appearing in most recent sequence
(where he found them) appearing in front of him
Gee pointing to region of Texas where ET is located
Gee in front of fieldhouse
Images of Waters, as before
Archive.org video of young African
American child around that time period walking on grounds of institutional
Text overlay: Q from Bell
Video: back in the archives as he locates these images, mirror earlier find at beginning of video to indicate parallel, then to close up of Jamar’s face
Text overlay: current quote from
Moore in Jamar’s current draft
Source: Memories of Old ET
Velma Waters applied for enrollment four times before she was finally admitted. (as before)
Text: Q from Wilkinson’s 595 paper on how she would bring her father lunch to campus every day but wasn’t
Audio: They were in records of cafeteria workers in the 1930s
Audio: They were in fragments of slave receipts in the library archives
Audio: They were in fragments of slave receipts in the library archives
In 1937, they were captured in photos of sewing room employees
I found them in photos of cane press workers.
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structure of some sort or down neighborhood sidewalk carrying a lunchbag
Waters with diploma?
Headlines from archives:
Last state college drops racial barriers
Fade to black
Belford Page as student
Belford at talk
Video of area he’s talking about and parking lot where they may have been
(filmed with similar tone and feel of archives bits)
Image: Carlos in Mexico City in 1968 allowed to attend.
Video: “Coming Together” panel
(recording shared Feb 16)
Caption at bottom of screen:
Maydell Pannell, Commerce, TX
Audio: “We could work here but we could not go to school here” (Maydell
Pannell)
Popcorn:
Velma Waters was the first African
American to enroll in classes and attend ETSU. (as before)
Family and neighbors like Maydell
Panell and her children would soon follow.
Derek Bell on difficulties of/with segregation
Caption: Belford Page (Dallas, Texas), attended ETSU 1968-1971
Caption: John Carlos (Harlem, New
York), attended ETSU 1966-1968
Video: Carlos on immediate impression of Commerce (as before, 4:56-6:00
Audio: “I was shocked! I thought every white person loved them some
Belford Page!
Source: black history month last week
. . . I learned (something about throwing rocks at truck, as in previous storyboard)
(as above)
Audio: same
Popcorn: Wilkison’s 595 paper popcorn: Maydell
Pannell would later earn her (BA and MA I think) from ET, as would her children.
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Overlay across greenscreen bit from eugenics film
Image: quote from Carlos
Video: Jamar, back in the archives
Images of first black students
End Part III
Aireal view of campus over a few different decades showing change over time
Caption for each: Velma Waters,
(Commerce, Texas), Class of ?
Charles ?, (from where), first black graduate student (Class of?)
Ivory Moore (Oklahoma), first African
American administrator (197?-date of retirement)
Name? (place), first African American homecoming queen (date)
Text: It meant change.
Headlines: revealing something other than extreme change for the better—at least not always
FOCUS on text from letter to the editor I read last time (Carter will get this text
Text: It meant “change”
FOCUS on text from letter to the editor
I read last time (Carter will get this text
Audio: music bed quiet, sounds of shuffling paper, Jamar still looking
Audio: Decades later, I find myself. I know the struggles aren’t over. I know there struggles are my struggles; my struggles are theirs.
I search the archives, and I wonder.
(cue: All Black Everything . . . let’s try to use this in last section to echo his original, we’ll
What did this mean for me? For my people? For those missing African
American faces? For those there?
Audio: It meant change
Source: Jamar
No voiceover, music continues
Audio: All Black Everything, continues
Popcorn other elements of these “firsts”—Moore also first mayor and city council member (etc)
Include also statistics for same.
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and citation if non one has it in their notes)
Images of access and opportunity around the world (celebration, victories of civil rights movement)
Fade to Black and citation if non one has it in their notes)
Text: it meant opportunity
Headlines (national): revealing something other than extreme chane for the better— at least not always
--segregation continues in area neighborhoods
--images of Jasper, Texas and other gruesome hate crimes that continue unabated end with New Jim Crow and something about troubling statistics more broadly
Text: It meant “opportunity”
It meant . . . everything.
Audio: It meant opportunity
Audio: All Black Everything, continues
Audio: All Black Everything, continues credits
Dedicated to Derrek A. Bell, (November
6, 1930 – October 5, 2011)
Audio: All Black Everything, continues
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