Black Water: Museum Object and Cultural History
Black Water: Date: 1990. Created by: Charlotte Cerf. Created by: Allen Moore, American, born 1952.
The object in the museum catalogue
A documentary short with the title Black Water. It consists of a single reel of color 16mm polyester film with variable area optical sound.
The documentary focuses on the effects of water pollution in a river in Sao Braz, Bahia, Brazil. Through translated first-hand accounts, the film shows how pollutants discharged from factories and a paper mill upstream affects local residents.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1990
- Created by: Charlotte Cerf
- Created by: Allen Moore, American, born 1952
- Owned by: D.C. Public Library, American, founded 1896
- Type: sound films
- Type: color films (visual works)
- Type: short subjects
- Type: 16mm (photographic film size)
- Medium: polyester film
- Dimensions: Duration: 26 Minutes
- Dimensions: Length (Film): 950 Feet
- Place used: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: Bahia, Brazil, Latin America, South America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: African diaspora
- Topic: Documentary films
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Nature
- Object number: 2017.55.12.1a
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Transferred from the DC Public Library
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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