Director Sam Pollard is asking the public for their stories about 1977 New York City Blackout to present a full picture of their experiences.
Amsterdam News has been reporting the news of the day from a Black perspective for 113 years. Donors who choose to give monthly or annually will receive Amsterdam News’ Weekly E-Edition and acclaimed weekday newsletter Editorially Black to their inbox!Acclaimed documentary director Sam Pollard revisits the infamous NYC Blackout of 1977 for his next feature.
The prevailing narrative around events of the blackout eight years later, in July 1977, bear a decidedly different characterization. Much of the coverage of the 1977 blackout has focused solely on incidents of looting and other violence. Oscar-nominated director Sam Pollard has set out to fully explore that narrative as he prepares to direct a documentary about the historic power interruption..
Pollard plans to dramatize not just the more popular renderings of the events of July 13–14, 1977, which resulted in more than 4,000 arrests, but the differing structural realities of New York City and the nation compared to those of a decade earlier. “By 1977, we had watched Nixon resign from the White House, America had been in Vietnam,” he said. “The Civil Rights Movement had changed radically because Dr.
In addition to crowdsourcing archival footage from the public along with traditional sources of video, audio, and images, Pollard would like to present a fuller picture of New Yorkers’ experiences during the 1977 blackout. “People were dealing with having children born that night, the crew of the ‘Superman’ movie were still trying to do filming. You also had people who were just helping each other. You also had sort of the incubation of hip-hop musicians—DJs were playing music at that time.
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