Program

Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

Period of Performance

5/1/2015 - 4/30/2018

Funding Totals

$150,000.00 (approved)
$144,762.22 (awarded)


Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking: Reprocessing and Digitization

FAIN: PW-228126-15

Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 47405-7000)
Brian Graney (Project Director: July 2014 to June 2019)

The creation of a comprehensive finding aid and the digitization of 40 linear feet (23,300 items) from the archives of Richard E. Norman, a pioneer in the development of films for African American audiences.

The Black Film Center/Archive (BFC/A) at Indiana University, working in partnership with the Indiana University Libraries, seeks support from the NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Grant program for the Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking: Reprocessing and Digitization project. The project proposes to reintegrate the dispersed holdings of pioneering race film producer and distributor Richard E. Norman; to produce and publish a comprehensive new finding aid to the collection; and to digitize 23,200 unique items in the collection for free public access online.



Media Coverage

Archival Spotlight: Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking - Reprocessing and Digitization (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Dorothy Berry
Publication: Black Camera
Date: 12/1/2016
URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.0253



Associated Products

Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking Collection, 1912-1997 finding aid (Web Resource)
Title: Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking Collection, 1912-1997 finding aid
Author: Megan MacDonald
Abstract: Electronic finding aid to the papers of Richard E. Norman at the Black Film Center/Archive, consisting of distribution records, correspondence, film publicity, posters, photographs, censorship materials, and fiscal statements of film producer and distributor Richard Edward Norman. The finding aid features digitized collection material embedded at the folder level.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/findingaids/bfca/VAC1152
Primary URL Description: Permanent URL for Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking Collection, 1912-1997 finding aid