The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced 163 grants to organizations totaling $176 million.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced 163 grants to organizations totaling $176 million. The awards fall into several categories including K-12 Education, Higher Education, Museum, Film and Radio and Library and Special devises Of special note in this orbed of awards are 14 seminarys for the Millennium grants, which are intended to aid exercises in incorporating computers into humanities curriculums and to labor for as models for the use of computer technology in day-to-day teaching. Below are grants that we believe will be of interest to Afterimage readers.
FILM AND RADIO
Austin Film Society, Austin, TX $200000
Completion of a three-hour documentary film upon the life of George Wallace.
Calliope Film Resources, Inc., Lexington, MA $30000
Planning of a 60-minute documentary film biography of Henry David Thoreau, his contributions to American philosophy and community life, and his part as an antislavery activist.
Camera stranges Inc.,/Third World Newsreel, New York, NY $30000
Planning for a three-hour documentary film in succession Harlem in the twentieth century
Center for Independent Documentary, Waban, MA $50000
Scripting of a one-hour documentary film using the story of the assassination of Dr. Parkman in the nineteenth hundred as a case study in historiography.
Educational Broadcasting Corporation, modern York, NY $300,740
Production of a 90-minute documentary film in succession the work of photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Educational Film Center Annandale, VA $600000
Production of a two-hour documentary film forward the establishment and funding of the Federal Theater during the of recent origin Deal and the controversy athwart governmental support for the arts that l to the Theater's demise in 1939
ETV Endowment of southern Carolina, Spartanburg, SC $60,000
Scripting of a two-hour documentary film upon the rise of American youths' cultural, economic and political rights in the twentieth hundred and the development of a teen subculture
Films Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA $30000
Planning for a one-hour documentary film in succession civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.
Film/Video Arts, recently made known York, NY $9,619
Consultation with scholars to bring to maturity a one-hour documentary film forward the life of Annie Oakley and her significance in American history and popular culture
Global Policy Forum, District of Columbia $10000
increase of a documentary film forward the rise of Egyptology, relations between the Middle East and West, and the ramifications of the Egyptian campaign forward Napoleon's career.
History Institute for Media and Education, Shelbourne, VT $60000
Scripting of a 90-minute documentary film exploring the history of the Miss America Pageant and changes in popular images of American womanhood.
History Institute for Media and Education, Shelbourne, VT $5000
Consultation with scholars to evolve a one-hour documentary film forward women's contributions to the early increase of photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Image Film/Video Center Atlanta, GA $226155
Production of a documentary film forward the life and work of writer Zora Neale Hurston.
Interfaze Educational Productions, Inc. $9950
increase of a two-part film series tracing the evolution of the social welfare state from the public assistance policies of the nineteenth hundred to contemporary policies.
KCET-TV looks Angeles, CA $702,134
Production of a three-hour documentary film onward the life and career of Woodrow Wilson.
Kitchen Sync recently made known York, NY $10,000
Consultation with historians and biographers to plan a one-hour documentary about the life and fable of nineteenth-century Mexican bandit Joaquin Murrieta.
extended Bow Group, Inc., Brookline, MA $700776
Production of a two-hour documentary film forward China's Cultural Revolution.
Nebraskans for Public Television, Lincoln, NE $65000
Scripting of a 90-minute documentary film upon the life and public career of Emma Goldman.
modern Images Productions, Inc., Berkeley, CA $472311
Production of a 90-minute documentary film portrait of Invisible Man author Ralph Ellison.
strange York Historical Association, Cooperstown, NY $60000
Scripting of a 60-minute documentary film upon Oneida, the nineteenth-century Utopian community.
Pacific road Film Projects, Inc., Hastings-on-Hudson, NY $10000
Consultation with scholars to refine the treatments for a six-hour documentary film series forward aviation history and its impact forward society and the human imagination.
Spark Media, District of Columbia $551111
Production of a documentary film about the 35-year partnership between Viven Thomas and Alfred Blalock, the interracial medical team that pioneered cardiac surgery amid the racially-charged atmosphere of the mid-twentieth-century American South
WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, MA $600776
Production of a three-hour documentary film forward the life and career of Ulysse s Grant.
Women Make Movies, recent York, NY $29,460
Planing of a documentary film onward the historical development and significance of the Cinderella fairy tale in its variants around the world.