Script for the film Beat Street owned by DJ Kool Herc: Museum Object and Cultural History
Script for the film Beat Street owned by DJ Kool Herc: Date: November 30, 1984. Commissioned by: Orion Pictures, American, founded 1978. Owned by: DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American, born 1955.
The object in the museum catalogue
A screenplay for the film “Beat Street” owned by DJ Kool Herc. Consisting of 95 pages of printed black text on white paper, the screenplay is bound by a blue spine Duo-Tang folder and has handwritten annotations in the upper right corner [205 [encircled]] and in the bottom right quadrant [1/3/84]. The title page reads: [205 / BEAT STREET / Screenplay by: Steven Hager / Revised Screenplay by: Andy Davis / David Gilbert / Paul Golding / AN ORIAN RELEASE / PRODUCED BY: Harry Belafonte / David V. Picker / DIRECTED BY: Andy Davis / Revised: November 30, 1983 / 1/3/84].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: November 30, 1984
- Commissioned by: Orion Pictures, American, founded 1978
- Owned by: DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American, born 1955
- Written by: Steven Hager, American, born 1951
- Written by: Andrew Davis, American, born 1946
- Written by: David Gilbert, American, 1929 - 2008
- Written by: Paul Golding
- Produced by: Harry Belafonte Jr., American, 1927 - 2023
- Produced by: David V. Picker, American, 1931 - 2019
- Type: screenplays
- Medium: ink on paper
- Place captured: Bronx, New York City, Bronx County, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: DJs (Musicians)
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
- Topic: Social life and customs
- Object number: 2022.73.7
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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