Color Adjustment

To watch the entire documentary, to read background information and to order DVDs, visit:
http://newsreel.org/video/COLOR-ADJUSTMENT
Marlon Riggs' study of how network television absorbed deep-seated racial conflict into the non-threatening formats of primetime television. Clips from Amos 'n' Andy, Good Times, Roots and The Cosby Show among others are intercut with interviews with producers, cultural critics and actors.
http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0022

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• California Newsreel
• non-profit
• African American History
• Black History
• Media Studies
• Television History
• Race
• Marlon Riggs

[htownhomie06]

One of my all-time favorite documentaries. I've owned 3 copies of this on DVD and quite ironically the same fate befell all three. In passing this off to friends & family I really wanted to see this, the copies always came up missing and were never returned. LOL! RIP Mr. Riggs. I really wish someone out there would do an updated version of this, picking up in 1988 where Color Adjustment kind've left off.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

I saw this in college in the fall of 2003. I have my Bachelor of Arts in Communications, and we watched this was in one of my General Arts and Humanities courses (though it had a lot of Communications majors in it). It's an excellent documentary, very interesting.