black tar heroin : the dark end of the street is a 1999 documentary directed by steven okazaki .

filmed from 1995 to 1998 in the tenderloin , san francisco , california , the documentary describes the lives of heroin addicts .

black tar heroin ( film )

veteran documentary filmmaker steven okazaki directs this harrowing account of bay city youth addicted to cheap mexican black tar heroin .
cheese heroin is mexican black - tar heroin that has been diluted with crushed tablets of over - the - counter sleep medication such as tylenol pm .
there are no critic reviews yet for black tar heroin : the dark end of the street . keep checking rotten tomatoes for updates !
block : one tragic side of this that you track in your reporting is huge spikes in deaths from overdose from black tar heroin .
cheese
is mexican black - tar heroin that has been diluted with crushed tablets of over - the - counter sleep medication .
tracey helton mitchell is a certified addiction specialist and the mother of three children . she was one of five heroin addicts profiled in the 1999 documentary black tar heroin .
block : you point out that this trade in black tar heroin from xalisco in mexico is quite different from the colombian heroin trade in that they ' re targeting a very different clientele .
an email i got from someone saying i “saved their life” . they saw “black tar heroin” and my story . it gave them the strength to stop . photo via
the film was made from dec 1995 to dec 1997 . originally the film was supposed to be for one year but i believe when hbo picked up the film they wanted two years .
black tar heroin was made a long time ago but has stuck around . it got a second life on the internet . youtube pushed me into the spotlight once again .
tracey helton mitchell is a certified addiction specialist and the mother of three children . she was one of five heroin addicts profiled in the 1999 documentary black tar heroin . michael kerner photography / seal press hide caption
black tar heroin : the dark end of the street [ 1999 ] . shows the drug - related degradation of five youths in san francisco , ca from 1995 to 1998 .
cheese
is mexican black - tar heroin that has been diluted with crushed tablets of over - the - counter sleep medication . courtesy of jeremy liebbe , dallas isd police hide caption
black tar heroin : the dark end of the street [ 1999 ] . shows the drug - related degradation of five youths in san francisco , ca from 1995 to 1998 . : documentaries
sam quinones of the los angeles times has written a three - part series on black tar , called
the heroin road .
he joins me now . and , sam , this black tar trade in the u . s . follows a very different business model . you compare it to operating like a pizza delivery services . describe what happens .
heroin is an opioid drug made from morphine , a natural substance taken from the seed pod of the various opium poppy plants grown in southeast and southwest asia , mexico , and colombia . heroin can be a white or brown powder , or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin . other common names for heroin include big h , horse , hell dust , and smack . read the drugfacts
the film maker won two academy awards . one before this and one after .
most people know me from
black tar heroin ,
which documented the period when i injected and slept on the streets . but 15 years later i have a completely different life . here ' s how it happened .
since black tar heroin was uploaded in full to youtube , in november 2012 , she has left dozens of comments responding to queries about the film and her life since recovering . “keep asking me questions , ” she wrote early in 2015 . “i will try to answer as many as i can . hard to believe this was me . ”
no film , narrative or documentary , goes as deeply inside the world of heroin addiction as black tar heroin : the dark end of the street . an extraordinary look at two years in the lives of five heroin addicts , it offers a rare and intimate portrait of how heroin devastates young lives . the film chronicles the daily lives of jake , jessica , tracey , oreo and alice , three women and two men , ages 18 to 25 , as they face the ever - present perils of hard core drug addiction — crime , prostitution , rape , incarceration , aids , overdoses and death .
this was a good film , i watched it on release but it definitely deserves another watch .
some drug documentaries which i recommend - dope sick love , black metal veins and swansea love story .
have you tried heroin ? what allows you to compare heroin and nicotine / alcohol ? because the addictive potential of heroin is on a different level than nicotine or alcohol .
this film is not currently playing on mubi but 30 other great films are . see what’s now showing
documentary about the estimated 750 , 000 homeless children in the united states . many of these children flock to portland , oregon . attracted by cheap
black tar
heroin , they arrive by bus , hitchhike and ride the rails . the program follows three of these children : chris , a 21 - year - old heroin addict w
block : along comes black tar with $ 6 a dose , $ 12 , $ 15 a dose and you need two or three of them a day . you ' re satisfying your addiction at about a tenth the cost .
black - tar heroin lures new users los angeles times reporter sam quinones has written a three - part series exploring how the recent trend in cheap , less - refined heroin from mexico is displacing colombian heroin and attracting new users in places where no demand existed . many addicts got hooked on narcotics through oxycontin and other prescription drugs . quinones says the dealers want to maximize profits in the shortest time period with minimum risk .
anyone producing anti - drug spots for tv ought to take a good , long look at black tar heroin : the dark end of the street . and so should those who harbor even the slightest romantic notions about junkiedom . steven okazaki’s crushing documentary , debuting on hbo , offers lessons for both .
offers the latest scientific information on heroin use and its consequences as well as treatment options available for those struggling with heroin addiction .
the dope out west is bad from what i ' ve heard . black tar dope is trash . i get bundles of ten bags for 40 bucks & w just 3 or four bags a day up the nose i ' m good .
offers the latest scientific information on heroin use and its consequences as well as treatment options available for those struggling with heroin addiction . (
this documentary follows the lives of a number of heroin addicts in the u . s . a . it shows their heroin life stories .
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i was off drugs when the film came out but not when the film was finished . the story of my recovery was not the story steven filmed . we were at odds at one point about this but i ' ve come to accept it .
brutally graphic , black tar heroin makes trainspotting look like an afterschool special—and it hits all the harder because it takes pains to introduce its subjects as human beings . we meet families , see childhood scrapbooks and come to appreciate the lives we’re seeing wasted . there’s no moralizing . here the unfiltered facts make the point , and make it devastatingly well .
black tar heroin : the dark end of the street : the documentary airs on hbo at 11 p . m . tomorrow and again at 10 p . m . monday , at 3 : 15 a . m . april 23 , at 12 : 10 a . m . april 27 and at 4 : 40 a . m . april 29 .
tracey helton ( / u / traceyh415 ) is the focus of this week’s episode of upvoted by reddit . we discuss her depression growing up , how she became addicted to heroin , life as a homeless heroin addict , being the subject of the hbo documentary ‘black tar heroin’ , how she got clean , her involvement in harm reduction , how she got involved in r / opiates on reddit , naloxone , and how she saved the lives of over 120 users by sending naloxone to those with no access .
explores the relationship between prescription opioid abuse and heroin use , including prescription opioid use as a risk factor for heroin use , reasons why people progress from using prescription opioids to heroin , and the need for prevention and treatment . (
my mom never saw the film , no . the rest of your questions are answered above . it ' s easier than me retyping
as a teenager , mitchell imagined heroin to be glamorous , but she found it wasn ' t once she became an addict . she tells fresh air ' s terry gross that the drug ruined her health and her self - esteem . she lived in an alley , shot drugs into the bottom of her feet , sold her body for money and was jailed several times . she was also featured in a 1999 documentary about addicts called black tar heroin .
because the addictive potential of heroin is on a different level than nicotine or alcohol .
the film follows a simple structure , and shows the drug - related degradation of five youths ( jake , tracey , jessica , alice , oreo ) during the course of three years . the film depicts their drug - related crimes and diseases : prostitution , male prostitution , aids , and lethal overdoses .
no . i was not paid for the film . he bought me a hotel to stay in for a week and bought me lunch a few times . i think they left some money for me when i was in jail too . documentary film makers , in general , don ' t pay their subjects .
the film follows a simple structure , and shows the drug - related degradation of five youths ( jake , tracey , jessica , alice , oreo ) during the course of three years . the film depicts their drug - related crimes and diseases , including prostitution , male prostitution , aids , and lethal overdoses .
behind the image of san francisco as a creative epicenter and ultimate party town drawing talented , disaffected kids from around the country ( if not the globe ) are some disturbing statistics . in the last ten years , the mean age of heroin users has dropped from 27 to 19 . white powder heroin ( china white ) has been replaced by the dreaded chiva , cheap black tar heroin from mexico , making the habit and all that it brings accessible to a much wider crowd . and drug overdose is the leading cause of preventable death in san francisco , claiming an average of 100 lives a year .
the ' hillbilly heroin ' epidemic that ' s slowly rotting the soul of rural america .
that is richard . he lives by my work . he isn ' t on heroin .
in the beginning of the film there is a junkie that looks kind of like a mulatto rabbi . who is he and what happened to him ? thanks traci
in an attempt to do the impossible , black tar heroin . . . is an insiders look into the life of a heroin addict . this commentary on youth in san francisco which are involved with heroin , among other things , is a graphic display of society ' s problems . though the movie at some points is to grotesque to watch , it is necessary to show for the value . every youth in society as they reach their teen years should be made to watch this movie . it is in the mind of this viewer that many of teenagers would be turned off enough , never to attempt this lifestyle .
i watched this film today and i watched it a few years ago . this is the first time i tried searching for the people in the film though . i said to myself
tracey is gonna make it . she ' s that 1 %
so happy for you tracey ! you go girl ! live & love life !
i ' m so glad to hear jessica is doing fine now , out of all the stories in the film hers shocked me the most . . . watching people shoot and nod didn ' t bother me much , but where the film left off with her and not knowing what was going to happen to her was just devastating .
i came here to explain the economics of a black market vs . a highly regulated , competitive market where consumers have good information about the product and shortages don ' t happen .
do you miss the feeling of it ? and anyway how could you put that tar into your vein when it ' s not the real deal ? heroin is like they say - once is too many times but at least a thousand isn ' t enough . a true pandora box .
any way you want to measure it , heroin ' s just not a contender . withdrawals ? heroin ' s not fun by any standard , but withdrawal from booze is deadly . it kills you .
documentary about the estimated 750 , 000 homeless children in the united states . many of these children flock to portland , oregon . attracted by cheap
black tar
heroin , they arrive by bus , hitchhike and ride the rails . the program follows three of these children : chris , a 21 - year - old heroin addict who has been on the streets for five years ; jesse , a 16 - year - old who has been on the streets of portland for two weeks ; and emily , who is trying to get out for the sake of her unborn child .
black tar heroin challenges the viewer by ultimately refusing to assign blame . the kids are innocent in a real sense , consigned to a private hell by a collusion of circumstances , from their own temperaments , to horrendous abuse , to the chance encounters with users whose personal charisma seduces them into the life . the family could be the culprit , but in the word portraits we get of this mostly missing group , they’re as fucked up as the kids . social service agencies appear to be overwhelmed by the sheer numbers . in the final analysis , the film seems to say , these addicts are simply acting out one of the more grisly scenarios of the human condition .
i remember watching this on hbo when i was 20 or so . i remember thinking ( no offense ) i don ' t want to end up like these people . it made me open my eyes to what drugs can do . i actually have the dvd of black tar heroin amongst other hbo documentaries : dope sick love etc . i pretty much watch it at least once a week . it ' s sad but i like how it was documented . good for you for being strong and staying off of heroin . keep your head up high . off subject you have beautiful eyes : )
as the so - called “epidemic” of addiction to heroin and other opioids continues in the us , stories like mine become even more important . my experience provides many years of evidence that there is hope after heroin .
hey tracey , i was a black tar tucson junky from 92 - 96 . your story was so insanely similar to mine . it was like watching myself . the progression to dealing , the housing ( bare mattress ? filty walls ? sorry , is that weird ? i didn ' t notice . . . ) , the boyfriends , the lifestyle . . . . damn . . . .
the film was produced by hbo and was frequently shown in 1999 on the channel , as part of their
america undercover
series , becoming one of its top - rated documentaries .
block : because it looks like kind of gooey . it ' s heroin that has not been fully processed .
as the so - called
epidemic
of addiction to heroin and other opioids continues in the us , stories like mine become even more important . my experience provides many years of evidence that there is hope after heroin .
there ' s a lot of shooting up in
black tar ,
but the footage is far too harrowing for a human - interest holiday special . alice , a seattle transplant , spatters the walls of her hotel room with blood from syringes ; jake , an hiv - positive addict with a blood infection , sneaks out of the hospital to inject heroin into his iv tube . okazaki acknowledges that following his protagonists through their daily lives was difficult .
the streets are much more dangerous when you ' re stupid .
steven met a bunch of different people at the youth needle exchange . he wanted subjects that were slightly younger than me . he filmed a few other people that never made it into the final film
block : but the problem is this black tar arrives and a lot of times people don ' t know how to use it . a lot of times , it ' s way too potent . a lot of times they don ' t know how to deal with people who are oding and they ' ll just abandon the people that - as they begin to od because they ' d never seen anything like that .
on her instagram profile , amid photographs of her smiling children , of kittens and screenshots of grateful messages from redditors whose lives have been touched by her naloxone program , are occasional images from less pleasant moments : screen captures from black tar heroin , for instance , or the mugshot from her arrest in october 1996 , which tracey posted in early june . “you can change , ” she wrote alongside the mugshot . “i promise you can . i know this for a fact . look at this person ; look at who i am now . ”
i have known a few people caught in the horror of heroin , this documentary is very accurate and done well .
i think all drugs should be available this way . take the power and money out of the black market , tax it like we do tobacco and alcohol , and take away 99 % of the danger and allure .
i think the documentary was fantastic , but why do addicts agree to be in it ? i mean many of you are on film dealing hard drugs . what kind of legal protection did the crew guarantee ?
tracey’s health and weight fluctuate wildly during the two years in which the film was shot . after serving another six - month stint in jail , and proudly telling the camera that she refused to use drugs while inside , an accomplice offers to buy heroin for her . she relapses within eight hours of her release . “it wasn’t all that great , ” she says , lying in bed the following morning , staring at the ceiling . toward the end of the film , tracey injects herself and says , “sometimes it makes me happy . ”
the film , which documentary vine calls
probably the best made heroin documentary in history ,
shows the brutality and degradation of the drug life , but also depicts the addicts ' pain and raw yearning — to get clean , to hold relationships together , to re - connect with their families , to get their lives back .
there ' s still tar heroin . the heroin that most people get today is much , much stronger . we didn ' t have to worry about fentanyl — of us dropping dead from an overdose , because no one cut it with fentanyl . the thing that we really worried about was getting flesh - eating [ bacteria , necrotizing fasciitis ] . . . or getting some kind of wound botulism or getting abscesses . there certainly were overdoses then . you could get arrested for overdosing and a lot of people were rolled out at the hospitals or left outside to die . . . but there wasn ' t this culture of heroin where heroin is prevalent absolutely everywhere . it was more localized to big cities , more urban areas .
sniffing heroin is not particularly new , but addiction experts say this outbreak in dallas is unprecedented . typically , people who inhale heroin are older and they ' re white . in dallas , however , users are mostly latino , and they ' re young .
heroin addiction can be like he described . it does sneak up on a person . i have known a good swath of employed functional heroin addicts but many of them live in social isolation because of the stigma of being found out as an addict . the san francisco junkie experience has it ' s own issues because the heroin here is particularly cheap and full of infectious materials . heroin is like a whirlpool . sometimes you enjoy the feel of the water but then you realize you are being slowly sucked down .
i have no educated opinion one way or the other - but what you just said about heroin could also be said about alcohol .
heroin is a disaster . i work with a lot of addicts in sf and it looks like nothing has changed in a generation .
block : sam quinones of the los angeles times whose series is called
the heroin road .
sam , thanks very much .
' cheese ' heroin hooking young users in dallas a cheap but highly addictive form of heroin known as
cheese
has swept through dallas in recent years , and local health officials are seeing hispanic children as young as 9 suffering from the crushing effects of withdrawal .
when i watch the movie black tar heroin : the dark end of the street , that scene is still shocking to me , even as the person who clearly remembers that moment . in the 16 years that i have now been off drugs , i am continually surprised by the somatic memories of the sights , smells , and the pain that i was experiencing at that time in my life . that feeling of desperation as i was unable to find a vein . that coldness in the san francisco air as it hit my legs . the scratchiness of the wool blankets that i had slept on the night before comes back to the front of my memory .
in dallas , health officials are seeing children that young being brought to hospitals with signs of heroin withdrawal . the city is in its third year of what drug abuse experts call a
mini - epidemic
among young hispanics snorting a mild but addictive heroin called
cheese .
i agreed to be in the film because i felt i was dying and that people would see it after i was dead to understand the pain drugs had caused me . i wanted my life to mean something . there was no protection , just reality
in dallas , there have been eight overdose deaths from cheese heroin alone or in combination with other drugs in the past 2 1 / 2 years , according to the county medical examiner . however , there hasn ' t been a death since last july , and the county has formed a cheese heroin task force . arrests of heroin dealers in schools and neighborhoods also are up , and there is an aggressive education program in the schools .
are we talking about the same guy ? the one who contracted aids ? i remember in the film it showed him in a relationship with a man but i got the sense he wasn ' t a homosexual and was doing it purely for the drugs .
she has every reason to be proud of herself for beating heroin addiction . very few people can do it , but she did ! ! ! ron
i was a very depressed kid . i was diagnosed as having depression in middle school . heroin alleviated some of that until the solution became the problem
liebbe learned that cheese costs only a dollar or two a line — well within a middle - schooler ' s lunch budget . and because cheese heroin is low - grade , only 1 percent to 3 percent pure heroin , it wears off quickly and withdrawal sets in . heavy users require frequent hits .
an addict , now clean , discusses needle exchanges and ' hope after heroin ' : shots - health news at the height of her addiction to heroin , tracey helton mitchell lived in an alley and sold her body . now she works as an addiction specialist helping others . her new memoir is the big fix .
i ' d seen this at the time it came out . ironically , i was in san francisco at the time so it made for an very eye opening experience , amazing film . there ' s a followup movie that finds those same kids years later . must see .
cartels would be getting rich off of the illicit heroin trade , would be willing to fight and kill for that wealth , and people would still be dying .
legalised no , decriminalised yes . i cannot figure out how methadone is legal , yet heroin isnt . both get you stoned and can cause death from overdose . methadone scares the absolute shit out of me . i can physically withdraw from heroin in 4 - 5 days , but methadone takes around 5 - 6 weeks .
if heroin were
prescription for those with multiple rehab failures
, this would mean that prior to that point they ' d still be buying from street dealers .
many of the kids featured in the film unfortunately didn’t survive the next few years , but tracey has completely turned her life around without losing her connection with those who struggle with addiction . in fact , she’s become a heroine for those grappling with the seductive and destructive allure of opiates .
my teacher in highschool showed me the film and that ' s when i first started using ( 3 years ago ) . i didn ' t understand what being sick was , i just thought everyone on the film were over exaggerating . so i continued using and i kept it up for acouple years . in those 2 years i feel like i experienced rock bottom . it ' s amazing how anyone can clean up if they really put their heart into it . you ' re a role model to me and i can ' t wait to have 15 years clean myself .
documentary examining the impact heroin has had on cape cod in massachusetts , following the stories of eight people who are all in their twenties as they battle with their addiction .
i didn’t know her that well . she had a boyfriend she lived with that was chronically ill and she was heavily addicted to heroin . that was pretty much it .
fuck heroin . and fuck the shady fucks that deal dope on the streets . seriously tho if in sf of all place you cannot find drugs you must be a hermit
sort of . i never knew alice . i met oreo when he was 15 or 16 . he was very young when the film was made . his mom used to work the desk in one of the hotels i lived in . jake and i used to hang out . at one point he had a crush on me . it wasn ' t covered in the film but jake really liked women . he used to make a ton of money as a male prostitute but he liked women . the drugs had him all messed up . when he got clean , he had a long - term girlfriend .
really happy to see u clean . years of using heroin i have over 3 year ' s this movie should be shown to young kids honestly . keep hope alive tracy .
that is good to hear . his story always stood out he didn ' t look like he was on heroin he just looked like a normal kid from the bay area .
it ' s not a documentary . but adam and paul is really . it ' s about 2 heroin addicts living in dublin city . it ' s really funny at times
a plain - language research summary about heroin , including basic facts such as methods of use , its effects on the brain , other health effects , and treatment options . (
decriminalization doesn ' t solve anything . it ' s the idea that if the heroin users get a $ 250 fine and have to go to rehab , that somehow this is substantially different . it ' s still illegal to sell , even if it ' s ( mostly ) legal to use . what the fuck good will that do ? doesn ' t starve the black market , doesn ' t put the killers out of business , still treats users as if they were mental patients antagonizing them . . .
heroin will always be a runner - up . it ' s not on a different level , it ' s really just sort of pathetic compared to the already - legal drugs .
i can faithfully say out of the dozen folks i knew that passed , 10 of them started with pain killers and graduated to heroin because it was similar and it was cheap .
oh , well , maybe that ' s unfair . let ' s instead talk about which drugs cause the most impairment . heroin doesn ' t win that race either . booze does .
gary morris founded bright lights film journal as a print publication in 1974 ; it became a web - only magazine in 1996 . he is the author of the monograph roger corman ( twayne publishers , 1985 ) and the editor of action ! interviews with directors from classical hollywood to contemporary iran ( anthem press , 2009 ) .
thanks for your blog . it ' s so good and inspiring . i wondered how the men in bth dealt with male prostitution , or living with that guy james in the film , while being straight . i wondered how much money they made and if it was enough to support the drugs and somewhere the live decently .
if anyone is wondering about updates for those who were filmed , check out : urltoken i am a documentary lover and while i do not do drugs myself . docs about different drugs have always fascinated me and is probably a good reason of why i will never try them . i think black tar is a great documentary for teens to watch . i live in montana and meth has been a huge problem for us . many highschoolers are now doing meth at parties instead of smoking pot or drinking . they need to be educated about all drugs so that they make educated decisions about what they are willing to
try
that could and most likely will lead to addiction and / or death .
i watched requiem for a dream many years ago as a 13 year old and that was enough to scare me away heroin forever . . . . that and my ungodly fear of needles .
los angeles times reporter sam quinones has written a three - part series exploring how the recent trend in cheap , less - refined heroin from mexico is displacing colombian heroin and attracting new users in places where no demand existed . many addicts got hooked on narcotics through oxycontin and other prescription drugs . quinones says the dealers want to maximize profits in the shortest time period with minimum risk .
honestly , i was very confused and angry . i had no privacy . none . people would stop me everywhere i went . i was very early in recovery which was already confusing to me . now , i use the legacy of the film as a tool to spread hope . anyone can get clean . anyone - even me .
hi tracey , my name is jake and i am 22 years old . i just graduated from college at ohio university with a degree in psych and will be entering the real world this summer . just watched the hbo doc immediately after seeing you on some talk show . i just want to say i hope you are doing well because i understand there are good and bad days and i hope everyone else in the film who is still alive has been able to get away from heroin and find peace on a day to day basis . you seem like you had / have an incredible personality / charisma even when your life was consumed by heroin and are an incredible example of perseverance . i hope you have a great day
while her toddler plays in another room , michelle has a friend inject heroin into a vein in her neck - - one of the few that ' s still functioning after years of needles and impure dope .
i recently watched another documentary about heroin addiction and the thing that disturbed me the most is that when asked ,
why do you ( addicts ) do it ?
their response was :
boredom
.
it was hard to watch the needles in the beginning . needles in the arm . neddles in the foot . in the neck . then the needles stopped mattering . it got hard to watch the users . you end up realizing that these addicts are people , not just dirty bodies walking the streets . you can figure out why these people cannot stop . you see that they made a mistake a long time ago and that mistake held on . all of their friends are part of that mistake . who do you go to when your trying to fix a mistake ? your friends . notice how this won ' t work . this film makes you see these people as people . the types that have to sleep on sidewalks . find this film and watch it .
fuck , all the returning vietnam vets , when they got home and heroin was no longer an acceptable outlet , the vast majority quit , by themselves . no rehab , no years - long struggles . they just quit .
finally , there is that time i was caught on camera pulling my pants down to inject heroin into my thighs in a doorway . whether i like it or not , this moment is probably my legacy to the world .
hi tracey , i loved how open and honest you were about everything in the film but why did you choose to let someone document all of that ? weren ' t you worried about it coming back to haunt you , or didn ' t you care at that point ? also , i felt really sorry for jake . he seemed like a nice guy . what was he like ?
her habit was such that she was injecting heroin into the soles of her feet as she no longer had any usable veins . she got arrested again , and served time while detoxing in the san francisco county jail . but this time she found a path to recovery . she chose to enter a long - term rehabilitation program , followed by four years in a sober living environment . the last time she used heroin was on february 27 , 1998 .
i really believed that i was going to die , or be murdered . there was lots of evidence to make me feel that way , and i wanted it to be something that people would see after i was dead that showed that heroin was not the glamorous thing that i had thought it was when i was a teenager and had imagined it . i wasn ' t paid for the film ; it was a huge inconvenience in my life , but i feel like it still is sort of my legacy to the world , because it ' s something that ' s watched today . millions of people still watch it .
the film is littered with the dire accoutrements of junk – books by patron saint william burroughs , droning spacey music , hellish apartments with a hotplate and a wrinkly midden of clothes made up to resemble a mattress . but there’s no moralizing here , just a picture of young people sucked into something they can’t handle that’s gradually taking over their lives . they’re mostly castoffs in every sense , with families either distant or nonexistent . one exception is alice , 21 , who begins the film claiming “shooting up is a meditation for me” and ends it by kicking the habit , at least during the time we see her . less lucky is tracey , a highly intelligent woman who spends 8 months in jail , comes out determined to kick , and ends up in an abusive relationship and back to using and dealing .
tracey . . . wow . you have come such a long way on such a hard , dark road . i just watched the film for a class i ' m taking ( sociology minor ) and i have to say that you , alice and
jessica
are truly inspiring . i ' m writing a paper on the film as we speak , regarding the fact that those of you who got and stayed clean are all women ( i know jake was clean for a long time , but relapsed . i seriously cried while watching the updates . ) . but why do you think you and the other women stayed clean ? was it your ties to family and stability that helped you , where others failed ? thanks so much for being you , for your struggles and your triumphs , and for being such an inspiration !
as someone who struggles with heroin addiction i really wish people would understand that most of us really wish we could change . when it ' s easy to stop you don ' t want to . when you want to it feels impossible .
i don ' t know the state of things elsewhere , but heroin deaths are on the rise here in new jersey . i lost my best friend and several acquaintances in the past year alone . with several more a couple years prior .
okazaki follows five young san francisco heroin addicts over two years , from back - alley haunts to blood - spattered hovels . there’s tracey , 25 , a bright kid from ohio who deals dope . she lands in jail , emerging after six months clean and hopeful . eight hours later she’s shooting up again . jake , 21 , has ‘too much of a conscience’ to steal , so he works as a prostitute . as the film unfolds , he learns he’s hiv - positive . jessica , 18 , starts off reformed . ‘i know if i use , i’m going to die , ’ she says . but soon she’s back at it , turning tricks and contracting hiv .
but unlike most addicted people , my experience played out in front of all of america . despite the fact that i had over one year clean at the time of the film’s release in 1999 , the whole country knew me as “that junkie chick” on hbo . those moments caused a collective feeling of shock , horror , disgust and curiosity . my addiction was no longer my own ; it belonged to a broader public conversation .
i ' m talking about the euphoria heroin causes compared to alcohol and nicotine , which comes before any damage , physical addiction , or anything else . you are comparing everything except euphoria level , which would make sense if you have never experienced it .
was a gripping 1999 hbo documentary that peered into the lives of young heroin addicts on the streets of san francisco’s tenderloin district in the years 1995 - 98 . every story followed was heartbreaking and arresting , but tracey helton definitely stood out brutally candid honesty .
is jessica still doing heroin ? i ' m very interested in finding out how she has been all these years , especially since it seemed like her and jake were the least likely to survive at the end of the documentary . thanks for sharing ! !
but unlike most addicted people , my experience played out in front of all of america . despite the fact that i had over one year clean at the time of the film ' s release in 1999 , the whole country knew me as
that junkie chick
on hbo . those moments caused a collective feeling of shock , horror , disgust and curiosity . my addiction was no longer my own ; it belonged to a broader public conversation .
thanks for participating in this film but even more so for gettin it together and building a life in reality for yrself . i been there and am now somewhere else living life clean and sober to da fullest xtent . i just wanted to let ya kno u r making a pozitive effect just by staying clean , proving a sober come back is possible and can happen for any of us ! keep goin , don ' t look back , jennifah powa
cheese heroin was completely unknown in the united states until the first case was discovered at thomas jefferson high school in august 2005 . since then , detective jeremy liebbe of the dallas independent school district police department says he has arrested and interviewed more than 300 users .
the only reason it looks bad to stupid people is because right now , with the laws the way they are , only people with the worst problems ever end up using heroin . they have social problems , mental health problems , economic problems , you name it .
since street dealers would be supplying , heroin users would still die from overdoses . they ' d die when the dealers decided to cut it with rat poison , or wanted to spice it up with fentanyl . they ' d get hepatitis and aids from shitty dirty needles .
this film should definitely be shown as a wake up call for impressionable young people . as these kids mention several times in this movie :
we watched this sid & nancy movie , and it lead to this and that
really , it sometimes doesn ' t take more than that for a kid to experiment .
let ' s be cool , and show a two fingered salute to this tedious world , let ' s pretend to be rock - stars !
many young people look up to artists who romanticize the junkie - lifestyle . the problem is that artists usually have the money to buy drugs , places to live etc . young minds doesn ' t think of all the gut wrenching horrors and desperation that come in the wake of a junkie - lifestyle ( ask sid how fun his last days were ) . if this film prevents young people becoming some idiotic sid vicious , courtney love wannabes , it has served a purpose .
i have known a few people caught in the horror of heroin , this documentary is very accurate and done well . it is very depressing but very true . i only hope hbo will do a follow - up story ( if any of the people featured are still alive ) .
you ' re missing my point completely and obviously just arguing for arguments sake . you are just quoting off some statistics or info you ' ve read online . while that ' s all good , you again miss my point : the euphoria created from a single shot of heroin cannot be replicated with any amount alcohol or nicotine . because of that , there really isn ' t such thing as a casual heroin user , while there are plenty of casual alcohol and nicotine users . therefore , your original point that alcohol and nicotine are also addictive but perfectly available is completely wrong .
hey brother , just know the people over here at / r / opiatesrecovery understand how you feel . if you ever need some support , head on over and spill your guts . i wouldn ' t be almost 1 year clean from heroin today if it wasn ' t for that sub .
jake was a nice person in general but he had mood swings . i was not really worried about this movie coming back to haunt me because i did nto think i was going to live much longer . i wanted people to see heroin addiction is not glamorous like i imagined as a teenager .
sf county jail has some methadone slots . heroin withdrawal generally takes 4 days of acute withdrawal . the worst day is between day two and three . your nose runs , your legs twitch , you can ' t sleep , you have to puke or use the bathroom . then the pain subsides .
not sure what op is talking about . heroin isn ' t typically the drug of choice for deadheads , though there are always exceptions , especially in a drug friendly community like that . maybe just using it as a blanket term for berkeley street people ? and yeah there are definitely still deadheads .
you have no idea what you are talking about . it has been estimated that around 10 % of the population is predisposed to alcoholism . ever been to a rehab ? . in the one that i went to ( 12 step ) , 90 % were alcoholics . and you know what else ? , our doctor spent 40 minutes of a one hour lecture on the dangers of alcohol and how it affects pretty much every part of your body . you know what he said about heroin ? , i hate to say this but apart from dirty needles , disease and od , heroin is not that neurotoxic .
when she was 17 , tracey helton mitchell was prescribed an opioid pain killer after getting her wisdom teeth extracted . the medicine helped her deal with the pain related to the extraction , but when the prescription ran out , her desire for its euphoric high remained . that ' s when she turned to heroin .
i felt bitter at first that no one got the opportunity to know that i had discontinued all drug use and started a new life . but instead of wallowing in resentment , i decided to use my unique story as an opportunity to teach people about the daily struggles of a person who’s addicted to heroin .
lazy degenerate junkies , anything that involves a little bit of hard work like self - control is kryptonite to these losers . it doesn ' t really bother me that they are killing themselves with heroin , what bothers me is when you ' re walking down the mission and panhandlers act like you owe them money .
most of our domestic heroin comes from the cartels , not overseas . it ' s also not much cheaper than it ' s always been . the price of oxy like pills shot through the roof when purdue put in the abuse safeguards on oxy , causing the supply of pills that can be abused to suddenly drop .
reports that we were seeing were pretty striking . kids as young as 9 or 10 years of age coming to the hospital emergency rooms or detox facilities in acute heroin withdrawal ,
says dr . carlos tirado , a psychiatry professor at ut southwestern medical center and medical director of a drug treatment center in dallas .
i felt bitter at first that no one got the opportunity to know that i had discontinued all drug use and started a new life . but instead of wallowing in resentment , i decided to use my unique story as an opportunity to teach people about the daily struggles of a person who ' s addicted to heroin .
hi tracy i saw the film years ago the first time i ever tried recovery . it is so great to see you have a presence on the internet , and i admire you for your honesty . i am constantly fighting this disease , sometimes more successfully than others but you give me so much hope and i thank you for that . finding happiness in parenthood after struggling with addiction gives me a lt of hope as well . i hope it would be ok if i emailed you one day , as of this moment i ' still sick and suffering .


brown sugar is a 1922 british silent romance film directed by fred paul and starring owen nares , lillian hall-davis and eric lewis .

it was based on a play by lady arthur lever .

brown sugar ( 1922 film )

da fo de tong kong ( the eyes of buddha ) , a 1922 film that starred liu xiyang , the country ' s first film actor .
at the heart of the american sugar industry was the domino sugar company . founded during the height of the industrial revolution , in 1807 , the company was created by william and frederick hevemeyer in the city of new york . the company led industry efforts to gain control of brown sugar production and to restrict price competition in the sugar industry . one of the primary tools used was to mount a smear campaign to denigrate brown sugar , whose refining it did not completely control . by blowing up photographs ( taken through microscopes ) of grotesque but harmless microbes found in brown sugar , reproducing and then distributing them with warning of the supposed dangers of eating brown sugar , the company convinced the american public that brown sugar was of an inferior quality than white refined sugar . 6
bogle , donald . brown sugar : eighty years of america ' s black female superstars . new york : harmony books , 1980 .
the story of brown sugar begins , unsurprisingly , with the story of sugar . sugars are natural ingredients found in most plants but what we have come to known as sugar is often extracted from sugarcane and sugar beets . sugar cane , from the genus saccharum , was originally cultivated in tropical climates in south and southeast asia . 1 neither should it be a surprise that the road from brown sugar to white sugar looks very much like the roads taken to get to white bread , white flour , and white cotton . all have similar histories where the unnatural but white version is preferred or is seen as a higher quality than the browner , natural varieties . 2
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sticky and compact , i remember struggling to handle this strange sugar during family barbeques as we seasoned our meat . as i thought about it , i realized besides an occasional pineapple upside down cake , outside of barbeque , i couldn’t recall ever having used brown sugar . why was that , i asked ?
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future learning and skills – giving everyone the opportunity to build a lifelong relationship with film .
) . in 1936 , brown filed for a u . s . patent for a moving picture machine through which to view films . he moved into professional filmmaking as an employee of empire and superior studios in the 1940s and 50s to film full - length pictures . orris d . brown was a shriner and a free mason . he passed away in 1965 .
mintz , sidney w . sweetness and power : the place of sugar in modern history . ( new york : penguin , 1985 ) , 285 .
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eichner , alfred s . the emergence of oligopoly : sugar refining as a case study . ( baltimore : johns hopkins , 1969 ) , 68 - 69 .
two eggs well beaten , one - cup brown sugar , two teaspoons ginger , one - cup n . o . molasses ( boiled ) , one - teaspoon baking soda , flour to roll out . mix in the order given . i poured the molasses into a pot and watched small bubbles form and subsequently burst as the dark liquid began to heat . as the molasses boiled on the stove , i started mixing the ingredients in the order specified in the recipe . after the eggs had been beaten furiously with my new silver whisk , i began to measure the brown sugar for what i hoped would be a delicious dessert .
kiple , kenneth f . , and kriemhild coneè ornelas . “sugar . ” the cambridge world history of food . ( cambridge : cambridge up , 2000 ) , 284 .
orris dorr brown was born in 1890 in henderson , texas . he married edna myra webb in 1923 , and together they traveled domestically and abroad teaching cake decorating techniques using edible sugar . brown became interested in filmmaking in the early 1930s and began filming scenery and sites as he traveled . texas became the focus of many of his films , and he traveled extensively throughout the state to document historical figures and locations , most notably scenes of uncle jeff hamilton , sam houston ' s personal slave (
megan parisi , head brewer at sam adams nano brewery in boston , hadn ' t heard of the 1922 silent film blood and sand , starring early 20th - century heartthrob valentino , but she was a fan of the cocktail that bears the movie ' s name : a blend of scotch , vermouth , cherry heering liqueur and a touch of blood orange juice .
starting with the sweet and tart flavor profile of the tamarind , the distillers packed as much of the fruit as they could into neutral grain spirits , then added lemon zest and brown sugar to bring out some of the tangy , nutty tones already found in the tamarind .
we wanted to be really true to the flavor ,
says oakes .
knight , arthur . disintegrating the musical : black performance and american musical film , duke university press ( 2002 ) , pp . 72–76 .
mcdaniel ' s first marriage ended brutally in 1922 , when her husband of three months , george langford , was reportedly killed by gunfire . her career was much better , including a first radio performance in 1925 on denver ' s koa station . mcdaniel was one of the first black women to be heard on american radio .
according to the fiaf database , the bfi / national film and television archive ( london ) has material on this title . no format is specified . ~ roger
came up i guess i will go forward . one british director i have been interested in is walter summers , just based on what an excellent film i feel
here ' s everything that came up in fiaf ( which doesn ' t really cover anything past 1931 ) for walter summers . no indication is made as to available formats or completeness for these titles . 1 . battles of coronel and falkland islands , the summers , walter united kingdom 1928 bfi / national film and television archive ( london ) [ gbb ] 2 . battles of coronel and falkland islands , the ( trailer ) summers , walter 1928 national film and sound archive , australia ( canberra ) [ auc ] 3 . bolibar summers , walter united kingdom 1928 bfi / national film and television archive ( london ) [ gbb ] 4 . flying fool , the summers , walter united kingdom 1931 bfi / national film and television archive ( london ) [ gbb ] 5 . maisie ' s marriage butler , alexander united kingdom 1923 bfi / national film and television archive ( london ) [ gbb ] 6 . men like these summers , walter united kingdom 1931 bfi / national film and television archive ( london ) [ gbb ] 7 . mons summers , walter united kingdom 1926 bfi / national film and television archive ( london ) [ gbb ] 8 . nelson summers , walter united kingdom 1926 bfi / national film and television archive ( london ) [ gbb ] 9 . raise the roof summers , walter united kingdom 1930 bfi / national film and television archive ( london ) [ gbb ] 10 . she de cordova , leander united kingdom 1925 cinémathèque royale ( bruxelles ) [ beb ] 11 . ypres summers , walter united kingdom 1925 bfi / national film and television archive ( london ) [ gbb ] ~ roger
a lord marries an actress and she takes the blame for gambling brother . [ sourced from the british film catalogue : volume 1 : denis gifford : 3rd edition ]
in 1936 . he sang a number of duets with jolson , and the film included calloway ' s band and cast of 22 cotton club dancers from new york .
three hundred years after being introduced to europeans by christopher columbus in 1492 , 3 by the 19th century , sugar was considered a necessity . 4 this evolution of taste and demand for sugar had major economic and social implications for the entire world . as a result of this demand , tropical islands were colonized and sugarcane plantations began ‘cropping up’ in record numbers . consequently , the demand for cheap labor to assist in the labor - intensive cultivation and processing of sugarcane contributed greatly to the transatlantic slave trade , which displaced many african peoples . 5
rogerskarsten wrote : according to the fiaf database , the bfi / national film and television archive ( london ) has material on this title . no format is specified . ~ roger
( introducing taiwan today ) , a documentary shot in over a hundred villages and meant to showcase japan’s civilizing influence on taiwan . the first taiwanese feature film was tanaka king ' s
n 1963 , the central motion picture corporation introduced the
health realism
genre , designed to promote the roc ' s agenda . the last taiwanese film shot exclusively in taiwanese was in 1981 .
in 1943 calloway appeared in the high - profile 20th century fox musical film stormy weather . stormy weather was one of the first films that featured an all - star black cast . [ 14 ]
somebody asked this question on another board but didn ' t receive any helpful answers . i thought it worth pursuing . nelson seems to be cedric hardwicke ' s first film . any info is appreciated . thanks
curiously enough , it didn ' t . i thought it was a long time since i ' d had a post on silent film and poetry , did a word search or two on the handy old poetry (
if humboldt would be surprised to find his life ' s work as inspiration for a cordial , then silent film star rudolph valentino might be equally unprepared to be connected with a beer — by way of a cocktail .
history did i double - back and find spadeneal reference to the hooley film among a discussion to which i ' d been contributing . so purest coincidence and me being dumb . anyway , here ' s the link :
( pili ) began televising , a popular drama that still airs today . the puppets have grown more ornate over the years and now seem to even cry tears and cough blood . in 2000 , pili made a film ,
in klein ' s film , clouds of red smoke billowing behind the frozen - in - time models inspired master whisky maker bob dalgarno to choose rioja red wine casks for aging the whisky , an unusual move for the distillery , according to charles whitfield , the macallan ' s manager of brand education and prestige whiskies .
this was the first time we ever used rioja casks ,
says whitfield ,
but steven ' s film inspired us to innovate .
the resulting whisky — which is also peated to mimic the smokiness in the film , something not typically characteristic of the macallan ' s line — has a pinkish - red hue with underlying tones of sweet berries .
calloway and his band starred in hi - de - ho ( 1947 ) , an all - black full - length film directed by josh binney . caricatures of calloway appeared in the porky pig cartoons porky at the crocadero and swooner crooner .
as i turned down the heat on the molasses to allow it simmer , i carefully added ground ginger . watching the ginger disappear into the creamy brown concoction , i thought back to my ancestors . it wouldn’t surprise me if at some point in history one of them had made the same treat for her master’s children while her own children toiled in the hot sun picking cotton or harvesting sugarcane .
mcdaniel spent much of 1940 touring the country as mammy , and in the following year she appeared in three substantial film roles , earning no less than $ 31 , 000 for her efforts . she was married , for a third time , to james l . crawford in 1941 .
while the beer itself has a darker tone , imparted from a cherry smoked malt , parisi didn ' t want to be completely literal in her interpretation by producing a blood - red beer , instead relying on the label art of a matador zombie to provide visual references to the film .
hattie mcdaniel ' s portrayal of the
mammy
figure in the film gone with the wind , for which she received an academy award for best supporting actress in 1940 , is still widely seen as a role that could only have been played by her . she was the first african american to receive an oscar .
i keep rattling on about ' suspense ' too . . . . . it does creak at times , like only a 1930 sound picture can , but it does sweep you along , and it gets to you ; there are stand - out performances from the cast , particularly hay petrie , and it ' s the best film about the trenches of ww1 i know .
as a result of the success of
minnie the moocher
, calloway became identified with its chorus , gaining the nickname
the hi de ho man
. he also performed in the 1930s in a series of short films for paramount . ( calloway ' s and ellington ' s groups were featured on film more than any other jazz orchestras of the era . ) in these films , calloway can be seen performing a gliding backstep dance move , which some observers have described as the precursor to michael jackson ' s
moonwalk
. calloway said 50 years later ,
it was called the buzz back then .
[ 8 ] the 1933 film international house featured calloway performing his classic song ,
reefer man
, a tune about a man who favors marijuana cigarettes . [ 9 ]
according to music historian arthur knight , the film aimed in part
to both erase and celebrate boundaries and differences , including most emphatically the color line .
he also notes that
when calloway begins singing in his characteristic style – in which the words are tools for exploring rhythm and stretching melody – it becomes clear that american culture is changing around jolson and with ( and through ) calloway
.
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collaborating with visual artist steven klein , scotch whisky company the macallan crafted a limited edition single malt as part of their
masters of photography
series , which has included photographers annie liebovitz and mario testino as contributors , among others . klein created a short film that focuses on the concept of capturing a moment in time , alluding to how integral time is to the making of whisky . think the
mannequin challenge
with an industrial - chic vibe .
in 1935 mcdaniel played
mom beck
in the little colonel . a number of african american journalists objected to hattie ' s performance in the film . they charged that the character of mom beck , a happy black servant in the old south , implied that black people might have been happier as slaves than they were as free individuals . this movie marked the beginning of mcdaniel ' s long feud with the more progressive elements of the african american community .
renewed interest in calloway occurred in 1980 when he appeared in the hit film the blues brothers , performing
minnie the moocher .
he also sang
the jumpin ' jive
with the two - headed monster on the children ' s tv series sesame street . this also was the year the cult movie forbidden zone was released , which included rearrangements of , and homages to , calloway songs written by calloway fan danny elfman , performed by elfman and his band , the mystic knights of the oingo boingo .
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from left , von humbolt ' s natur wasser , named after the german explorer and naturalist ; blood & sand , inspired by silent movie star rudolph valentino ; and a single malt by macallan in collaboration with artist steven klein .
if you ' ve never heard of alexander von humboldt , a once world - renowned prussian scientist who predicted man - made climate change in 1800 and was an adviser to president thomas jefferson , then a new hampshire distillery is aiming to change that , one glass at a time .
one of the things that really struck a chord with us was that humboldt was fascinated by nature , and we ' re fascinated by it , too ,
says jamie oakes of tamworth distilling .
we ' ll take a walk through a sunny pine grove and then try to figure out how we can distill those smells in liquid form .
oakes and fellow tamworth distiller matt power were particularly inspired by andrea wulf ' s book , the invention of nature : alexander von humboldt ' s new world , which chronicles the naturalist ' s global exploration of plants , animals , geography , geology and meteorology . zeroing in on a passage detailing purchases made by humboldt from capuchin monks before he ventured onto venezuela ' s rio apure , the two distillers were intrigued by the tamarind pods said to turn the brackish river water into a
refreshing lemonade .
shortly thereafter , they set about creating a tamarind cordial under the moniker of
von humboldt ' s natur wasser .
most of the time , we ' re limited by what we can grow here in the northeast ,
says power ,
but this concept allowed us to spread outside with a more global ingredient list .
the tamarind is pretty versatile , with some fatty , creamy qualities ,
notes power .
it plays well with rum and whisky , or in place of triple sec for a margarita .
i love scotch , and there aren ' t many scotch - based cocktails ,
says parisi ,
so the blood and sand is one of my favorites . but then i got interested to learn more about the movie and how the cocktail evolved .
a melodramatic tale of a doomed adulterous bullfighter , blood and sand was reported to be valentino ' s personal favorite performance , with the cocktail recipe by the same name first appearing in the 1930s savoy cocktail book , just a few years after valentino ' s own untimely death . spiked with blood - red ingredients , the drink is as dramatic as its namesake .
for parisi , the trick was in translating that inspiration to a beer , which she says is not as easy as it sounds .
there ' s no way to really mimic a cocktail in a beer ,
she says ,
but you can reflect the flavors and the experience .
she chose to focus on manipulating the grains at different temperatures to create more body and a higher alcohol content , which she felt would provide that scotch - like element .
you can get totally different beers just by making minor temperature changes ,
says parisi ,
so i was looking to get a little bit of smoke and lingering richness .
you can paint a flavor picture based on literature , music and movies without being too obvious ,
she says .
for instance , we did a beer based on the movie the sixth sense , and we used ghost pepper to bring just enough heat to be a little scary .
the stereotype with whisky is that it ' s boring and traditional ,
says whitfield .
collaborating with an artist like this allows us to break out of that mold .
while the macallan sees their collaborations with artists like klein as a way to reach a new audience , the tamworth distillers are hopeful that their natur wasser project brings more attention to humboldt ' s work .
we ' re trying to do him a service by learning a bit about what was valuable to him and sharing it with other people ,
says power .
if that knowledge comes by way of a cocktail , why not ?
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ingredient of their choice , find a recipe that exemplified their chosen ingredient , and prepare it for the class . the following is amari’s research paper submitted for the class .
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fryer , peter . black people in the british empire : an introduction . ( london : pluto , 1988 ) , 252 .
lincoln , mary johnson bailey . mrs . lincoln’s boston cook book : what to do and what not to do in cooking . ( boston : roberts brothers , 1884 ) , 458 .
cummings , richard osborn . the american and his food . ( new york : arno , 1970 ) , 114 .
cornish , audie . “artist kara walker draws us into bitter history with something sweet . ” npr . ( 16 may 2014 ) .
callahan , yesha . “reactions to kara walker’s a subtlety prove a black woman will be sexualized , even in art . ” the root . ( root , 28 may 2014 ) .
cadwalladr , carole . “iman : ‘ i am the face of a refugee ' ” the guardian . 28 june 2014 .
figoni , paula . how baking works : exploring the fundamentals of baking science . ( hoboken , nj : john wiley & sons , 2011 ) , 82 .
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thanks , roger . sounds like lord nelson is under house arrest at bfi .
really do not sound promising . but others do . the director ' s name is added where summers only worked on a project as a writer , and it ' s worth mentioning that he contributed to the writing on all of his own films .
a couple of qualifications ; there was no company called
g . b . samuelson productions
but this is used as a blanket title as samuelson seems to have founded companies , run them a couple of years , they ' d fail and he ' d found another . also
is kind of a mystery as it only appears on imdb , with a truncated cast list , and is mentioned nowhere on bfi ; perhaps this is an alternate title . summers seems to have been credited for the 1930 version of
based on his contribution to the original script , but probably did not have a direct hand in the later version .
naturally i would appreciate any word on the status of these pictures , whether extant , not or i got something wrong here . - - spadeneal
i pagliacci ( 1923 , co - directed with g . b . samuelson & s . w . smith )
should a doctor tell ? ( 1923 , writer - director : alexander butler & p . j . ramster )
she ( 1925 , writer - director : leander de cordova & g . b . samuelson ) extant
should a doctor tell ? ( 1930 , writer - director : h . manning haynes )
; of the various films i read about in connection with summers that sounded very interesting . thanks to urbanora for confirming the existence of
as that also seemed like a very interesting title ; i had run into a page by the british navy about films dealing with them that seemed to indicate that the title was not available . that ' s also good news about mons as it appears to have been the inspiration for teresa hooley ' s poem
btw you can add the mutiny of the elsinore to the list of survivors . i found that there is a public domain dvd of it available in the us as part of collection of pirate - themed movies . spadeneal
and if you follow the link to the britishpathe site via the post on mr urbanora ' s bioscope blog , you can ( i assume , it may be uk only ) watch ypres . . . .
yes , as a matter of fact i did just that last night after reading the latest bioscope post . i wonder if this thread inspired that post in any way . . . ~ roger
) site , and found teresa hooley ' s poem . only when i started pursuing the
is another survivor . that ' s getting to be most of the sound films - - looks like summers is pretty well represented overall .
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others as the sole legitimate government of the mainland . still others believe it to be an island with a unique history stretching back thousands of years and with a distinct culture made up of
the first films shown in taiwan were brought by the japanese , as early as 1901 . as with japanese films , they relied on a narrator ( rather than intertitles ) by figures known in taiwan as benzi . the first taiwanese benzi was also a musician and composer , wang yung - feng .
( takamatsu toyojiro ) began exhibiting films from europe and japan and built eight theaters . in february 1907 , he filmed
) ( 1943 ) , the latter depicting helpful interactions between the japanese and taiwan ' s indigenous ayatal .
after the chinese civil war , many chinese filmmakers sympathetic to the nationalists came to taiwan . during this era , taiwanese language films dominated .
in 1962 , seven films were shot in mandarin and 113 in taiwanese . the nationalists promoted the use of
meanwhile , martial arts films , not seen as overtly political , also grew in production numbers and popularity in a climate subject to strict moralistic censorship .
genre , which literally took martial arts to new heights ( with the strings and stuff - - get it ? ) . the
began in the 17 th century in fujian , just across the taiwan strait . it soon spread to taiwan . traditionally the puppets had cloth costumes and wooden heads .
in part to combat the juggernaut of hong kong films , in the early 1980s the cmpc began supporting home - grown directors with highly artistic sensibilities .
( edward yang ) , te - chen tao , i - chen ko and yi chang . in contrast to melodramas and action films , the new wave films were grounded in more muted tones and dealt with the comparatively mundane struggles of normal people .
in 1987 , after nearly forty years , taiwan’s long , brutal era of martial law and political suppression , the white terror , finally ended . the films that followed tended to be ( sometimes ) less somber but still grounded in the same realist tradition . without a doubt the biggest name associated with this era is 李安 ( ang lee ) .
after directing 1995’s british production of sense & sensibility , he set his sights on hollywood , where he went on to direct the ice storm , ride with the devil , brokeback mountain and… hulk .
, or taiwanese drama , has exploded in the wake of korean drama ’s global popularity .
lack of acting talent isn’t always an impediment to success in tdrama . so - called “vases
are cast primarily to please the eyes . pop stars and members of boy bands are also frequent actors . “
developed out of girls comics and usually deal , fairly tamely , with puppy love and crushes .
popular actors in tdramas include ady an , alec su , amber kuo , ambrose hsu , angela zhang , ariel lin , barbie xu , chen qiao en , cyndi wang , danson tang , eddie peng , ethan ruan , genie zhuo , gui gui , ivy chen , jimmy lin , joe cheng , johnny yan , kingone wang , kwai lun - mei , mike he , nicholas teo , penny lin , rainie yang , roy chiu , ruby lin and show luo .
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cabell
cab
calloway iii ( december 25 , 1907 – november 18 , 1994 ) was an american jazz singer and bandleader . he was strongly associated with the cotton club in harlem , new york city , where he was a regular performer .
calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the united states ' most popular big bands from the start of the 1930s to the late 1940s . calloway ' s band featured performers including trumpeters dizzy gillespie and adolphus
doc
cheatham , saxophonists ben webster and leon
chu
berry , new orleans guitarist danny barker , and bassist milt hinton . calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86 .
calloway was born in rochester , new york , on christmas day in 1907 to an upper - middle - class family . his mother , martha eulalia reed , was a morgan state college graduate , teacher , and church organist . his father , cabell calloway , jr . , graduated from lincoln university of pennsylvania [ 1 ] in 1898 , [ 2 ] and worked as a lawyer and in real estate . the family moved to baltimore , maryland , when cab was 11 . [ 3 ]
calloway attended frederick douglass high school . he played basketball , at the guard position , both for the high school and for the professional baltimore athenians team . [ 4 ] he graduated in 1925 . [ 3 ] [ 5 ]
in 1930 calloway took over a band called
the missourians
; later on , they renamed it
cab calloway and his orchestra
. the cotton club in new york ' s harlem was the premier jazz venue in the country . in 1931 calloway and his orchestra were hired as a replacement for the duke ellington orchestra while it was touring . ( calloway ' s group had joined duke ellington and mills blue rhythm band as another of the jazz groups handled by irving mills . )
calloway quickly proved so popular that his band became the
co - house
band with ellington ' s , and his group began touring nationwide when not playing the cotton club . their popularity was greatly enhanced by the twice - weekly live national radio broadcasts on nbc from the cotton club . calloway also appeared on walter winchell ' s radio program and with bing crosby in his show at new york ' s paramount theatre . as a result of these appearances , calloway , together with ellington , broke the major broadcast network color barrier .
like other bands fronted by a singing bandleader , calloway initially gave ample soloist space to its lead members and , through the varied arrangements of walter
foots
thomas , provided much more in the way of musical interest . many of his records were
vocal specialties
with calloway ' s vocals taking up the majority of the record .
in 1931 calloway recorded his most famous song ,
minnie the moocher
. that song , along with
st . james infirmary blues
and
the old man of the mountain
, were performed for the betty boop animated shorts minnie the moocher ( 1932 ) , snow white ( 1933 ) , and the old man of the mountain ( 1933 ) , respectively . through rotoscoping , calloway performed voiceover for these cartoons , but his dance steps were the basis of the characters ' movements . he took advantage of this , timing concerts in some communities to coincide with the release of the films in order to make the most of the publicity .
calloway ' s was one of the most popular american jazz bands of the 1930s , recording prolifically for brunswick and the arc dime store labels ( banner , cameo , conqueror , perfect , melotone , banner , oriole , etc . ) from 1930 to 1932 , when he signed with rca victor for a year . he was back on brunswick in late 1934 through 1936 , when he signed with manager irving mills ' s short - lived variety in 1937 . he stayed with mills when the label collapsed during the great depression . their sessions were continued on vocalion through 1939 , and then okeh records through 1942 . after an afm recording ban due to the 1942 - 44 musicians ' strike ended , calloway continued to record prolifically .
calloway ' s vocal style is a blend of hot scat singing and improvisation , coupled with a very traditional vaudeville - like singing style . many of his ballads are devoid of tone - bending jazz styling .
in 1941 calloway fired dizzy gillespie from his orchestra after an onstage fracas erupted when calloway was hit with spitballs . he wrongly accused gillespie , who stabbed calloway in the leg with a small knife . [ 13 ]
in 1944 the new cab calloway ' s hepsters dictionary : language of jive was published , an update of an earlier book in which calloway set about translating jive for fans who might not know , for example , that
kicking the gong around
was a reference to smoking opium .
the band also formed its own barnstorming baseball and basketball teams during the 1930s , starring calloway , milt hinton , chu berry , benny payne and dizzy gillespie . [ 15 ] [ 16 ]
during the late 1940s , calloway lived with his wife zulme
nuffie
and family in long beach on the south shore of long island , new york on the border with neighboring lido beach . in the 1950s , calloway moved his family to westchester county , new york , where he and nuffie raised their daughters chris , cecelia ( lael ) , and cabella calloway .
in his later career , calloway appeared in a number of films and stage productions that used both his acting and singing talents . in 1952 , he played the prominent role of
sportin ' life
in a production of the gershwin opera , porgy and bess , with william warfield and leontyne price as the title characters . another notable role was
yeller
in the cincinnati kid ( 1965 ) , with steve mcqueen , ann - margret , and edward g . robinson .
his autobiography , of minnie the moocher and me ( crowell ) , was published in 1976 . it included his complete hepsters dictionary as an appendix .
calloway helped establish the cab calloway museum at coppin state college ( baltimore , maryland ) in the 1980s . comedian and actor bill cosby helped establish a scholarship in calloway ' s name at the new school for social research in manhattan .
in 1985 , cab and his orchestra appeared at the ritz london hotel where he was filmed for a 60 - minute bbc tv show called the cotton club comes to the ritz ; adelaide hall , doc cheatham , max roach , and the nicholas brothers also appeared on the bill . [ 20 ] [ 21 ]
in 1990 , he was the focus of janet jackson ' s 1930s - themed music video
alright
, and he made a cameo appearance playing himself . in the united kingdom , calloway appeared in several commercials for the hula hoops snack , both as himself and as a voice for a cartoon ( in one of these commercials he sang his hit
minnie the moocher
) . he also made an appearance at the apollo theatre .
cab enjoyed his final years as a celebrated and well - loved member of a retirement community in northern delaware ( between , and short train rides from , his beloved baltimore and new york city ) . in 1994 , a creative and performing arts school , the cab calloway school of the arts , was dedicated in his name in wilmington , delaware .
on june 12 , 1994 , calloway suffered a severe stroke . he died five months later on november 18 , 1994 , at age 86 . his body was cremated and his ashes were given to his family . upon the death of his wife zulme
nuffie
calloway on october 13 , 2008 , his ashes were interred next to her in the rosewood mausoleum at ferncliff cemetery in hartsdale , new york .
a profile of calloway , cab calloway : sketches , aired on the pbs program american masters in february 2012 .
in 1998 , the cab calloway orchestra ( directed by calloway ' s grandson c .
cb
calloway brooks ) [ 24 ] was formed to honor his legacy on the national and international levels .
calloway , cab and rollins , bryant -
of minnie the moocher and me
—autobiography of cab calloway , with family recollections , family photos , photos of band members , and cab ' s
hipster ' s dictionary .
published by ty crowell , new york city , 1976 .
shipton , alyn . hi - de - ho : the life of cab calloway . oxford university press , 2010 .
lincoln university of pennsylvania alumni directory 1995 . harris publishing co . 1995 , p . 142 .
dilorenzo , kris ( april 1985 ) .
the arts . dance : michael jackson did not invent the moonwalk
.
shoot . . . we did that back in the 1930s ! only it was called the buzz back then .
shipton , alyn . hi - de - ho : the life of cab calloway , oxford university press ( 2010 ) , p . 97 .
jolson and cab calloway in ' the singing kid '
, a tribute to al jolson .
cab calloway
archived 2013 - 09 - 28 at the wayback machine . , jazz biographies .
. new york : penguin group . pp . 210–11 . isbn 1 - 58542 - 396 - 3 .
in her memoir she commented on other cast changes by david merrick to revive business for the show .
the cotton club remembered ( videotape )
( retrieved 6 september 2014 ) .
jazz on the screen — a jazz and blues filmography by david meeker : omnibus series episode the cotton club comes to the ritz
, library of congress ( retrieved 6 september 2014 ) .
lifetime honors — national medal of arts archived august 26 , 2013 , at the wayback machine .
. record research inc . pp . 72–73 . isbn 0 - 89820 - 083 - 0 .
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hattie mcdaniel was born on june 10 , 1895 , in wichita , kansas , the youngest of thirteen children in a family of performers . her father , henry mcdaniel , was a baptist minister , carpenter , banjo player , and minstrel showman , eventually organizing his own family into a minstrel troupe . henry married a gospel singer named susan holbert in 1875 and moved their growing family to denver , colorado , in 1901 .
hattie was one of only two black children in her elementary school class in denver . racial prejudice ( an unfair judgment based on race ) was less hostile in the west than elsewhere in the united states . for her talents as a singer and reciter of poetry , mcdaniel became something of a favorite at the 24th street elementary school , where mainly white students attended . mcdaniel sang at church , at school , and at home ; she sang so continuously that her mother reportedly bribed her into silence with spare change . before long she was also singing in professional minstrel shows , as well as dancing , performing humorous skits , and later writing her own songs .
in 1910 hattie left school in her sophomore year at east denver high school and became a full - time minstrel performer , traveling the western states with her father ' s show and several other troupes . the minstrel shows were usually performed by black actors , but were also sometimes performed
by whites in blackface . the shows presented a variety of entertainment that poked fun at black cultural life for the enjoyment of mostly white audiences .
when hattie ' s father retired around 1920 , she joined professor george morrison ' s famous
melody hounds
on longer and more publicized tours . she also wrote dozens of show tunes such as
sam henry blues ,
poor wandering boy blues ,
and
quittin ' my man today .
a big break came for mcdaniel in 1934 , when she was cast in the fox production of judge priest . in this picture mcdaniel was given the opportunity to sing a duet with will rogers ( 1879–1935 ) , the well - known american humorist . her performance was well received by the press and her fellow actors alike .
once established in hollywood , mcdaniel found no shortage of work . in 1936 alone she appeared in twelve films . for the decade as a whole her performances numbered about forty—nearly all of them in the role of maid or cook to a white household . mcdaniel won the role of
mammy
in gone with the wind over several rivals . her salary for gone with the wind was to be $ 450 a week , which was much more than what her real - life counterparts could hope to earn .
the mid - 1940s brought trying times for mcdaniel , who experienced a heart - wrenching false pregnancy in 1944 and soon after became the victim of racist - inspired legal problems . the actress found herself in a legal battle over a system in los angeles that limited the land and home ownership rights of african americans . having purchased a house in 1942 , mcdaniel faced the possibility of being thrown out of her home . she was one of several black entertainers who challenged the racist system in court , however , and won .
still , throughout the 1940s a growing number of activists viewed mcdaniel and all she represented as damaging to the budding fight for civil rights . naacp president walter white pressed both actors and studios to stop making films that tended to ridicule black people , and he singled out the roles of hattie mcdaniel as particularly offensive . in response mcdaniel defended her right to choose whichever roles she saw fit , adding that many of her screen roles had shown themselves to be more than equal to that of their white employers .
by the late 1940s mcdaniel found herself in a difficult position . she found her screen opportunities disappearing even as she suffered insults from progressive blacks . after her third marriage ended in divorce in 1945 , she became increasingly depressed and confused as to her proper path .
mcdaniel could still use her vocal talent on radio . in 1947 she won the starring role of
beulah
on the beulah show , a cbs radio show about a black maid and the white family for whom she worked . when hattie mcdaniel took over the role as beulah , she became the first black performer to star in a radio program intended for a general audience . the program was generally praised by the naacp and the urban league , along with the twenty million other americans who listened to it every evening at the height of its popularity in 1950 .
mcdaniel ' s last marriage , to an interior decorator named larry williams , lasted only a few months . in 1951 she suffered a heart attack while filming the first few segments of a projected television version of the beulah show . by summer she was diagnosed with breast cancer . mcdaniel died in hollywood , california , on october 26 , 1952 . she will always be remembered as mammy of gone with the wind .