Romare Bearden: Visual Jazz (1995)
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Freeman, Linda, 1941-
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content: Linda Freeman papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.3 Linear feet (Boxes 3-4, 28, FC 34-36)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971-2000
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.freelind, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Original footage includes an extended interview with Bearden's collaborator Robert Blackburn, as well as footage of Blackburn's printmaking studio. Additional interviews are found Nanette Bearden, curator Marilyn Kushner, Barrie Stavis, artist Andre Teabo, art historian Gail Gelburd, and program host and musician Wynton Marsalis. Transcripts are available for all original recorded content. 

Production material includes footage of Bearden collected from other sources, including the documentary Bearden Plays Bearden, and Romare Bearden's Rituals of Women, as well as copies of historical photographs of Bearden from unknown sources, and slides of artwork. Research material, draft scripts, rough edits, and a final script are also found.

The finished documentary is found as both a long and short version.