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Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues (1981)
Directed by Marlon Riggs, Peter Webster
Documentary · 29m
Marlon Riggs and Peter Webster’s thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and ’50s, when an influx of African American shipyard workers mostly hailing from Louisiana and Texas arrived in the Bay Area. Combining vintage photographs, archival footage, interviews, and performances at venues like Eli’s Mile High Club, Riggs and Webster chronicle Oakland’s vibrant past while revealing an uncertain present.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Marlon Riggs, Peter Webster
- Writer
- Peter Webster, Marlon Riggs
- Editor
- Marlon Riggs, Peter Webster
- Producer
- Marlon Riggs, Peter Webster
Details
- Release date
- 1981-01-01
- Runtime
- 29m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- University of California Berkeley