Scope and arrangement
The collection contains one video of an interview with Collins dated April 10, 1984.
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- Creator
- Collins, Kathleen, 1942-1988
- Call number
- Sc MIRS Collins 2017-06
- Physical description
- 1 video_recording
- Language
- English
- Preferred Citation
- Kathleen Collins moving image collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library
- Sponsor
- An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project.
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
- Access to materials
- Appointment preferred: Request an in-person research appointment.
Kathleen Collins (1941-1988) was a filmmaker, director, playwright, author, and professor. The collection contains one video of an interview with Collins dated April 10, 1984.
Biographical/historical information
Kathleen Collins (1941-1988) was a filmmaker, director, playwright, and author. She was a professor of film history and screenwriting in the Theatre Arts Department at City University of New York (CUNY), City College from 1974 to 1988.
Collins began as a film editor at National Educational Television. Her first film, The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980), was never theatrically released. Collins directed, co-produced, and wrote the screenplay for her second film Losing Ground (1982). The film was the second full-length feature to be directed by a Black woman. The first was Will (1981) by Jessie Maples.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Purchase, Estate of Kathleen Conwell Prettyman, 2017.
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Third Floor