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Something To Wear
Posted July 19th, 2007 by GretjenProduced by the Documentary History project for Youth 2000 and Scribe Video Center
Tina Morton and Maria Teresa Rodriguez
Did you know that pedal pushers were made for safety reasons? Or that jeans were originally designed for gold diggers? (Real gold diggers, not the money-hungry vixens commonly found in a rap video or hip hop song near you.) Something To Wear colorfully traces the history of fashion from the 1960s to the present and addresses the social, political and economic impact that fashions has made -- and continues to make -- on our society.
Documentary History Project for Youth 2000 student media makers were: Rachel Chapman (Conestoga High School), Loren Hicks (Central High School), Kyree Holmes (Central High School), Cabral Keita (Project Learn), Terrina Price (Masterman School) and Nicole Santiago (High School for the Creative and Performing Arts).
Tina Morton is an award-winning and prolific film and videomaker whose previously completed films and videos, include: The Dance in Aunt Ida Lee [LINK TO SCRIBE CATALOG ENTRY], A Day's Work, We The People, OpnFlo: Investigation, If You Call Them, The Plan and A Promise Fulfilled, which documents a Vietnam veteran who made a promise to his fallen comrade to journey across country in a horse-drawn covered wagon in the tradition of the Buffalo Soldiers. Morton's work has been broadcast on public television, featured in film festivals, exhibited in galleries and museums, and taught in colleges and universities in numerous cities across the United States.
Tina divides her time between Philadelphia, PA and Washington, DC where she is an assistant professor in the Department of Radio, Television and Film at Howard University. In addition to her teaching experience at Howard University, she has taught several film/video production courses at Temple University and has served as a project facilitator for several Scribe Video Center community based projects. She is also the director of the video Severed Souls [LINK], a popular documentary short in the Scribe Video Center catalog.
Maria Teresa Rodriguez is an award-winning film and video maker whose documentaries have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Rodriguez has received numerous fellowships, including a 2001 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She is on faculty at University of the Arts and she has completed, with Frances McElroy, Mirror Dance, an ITVS funded documentary about two Cuban sisters, both dancers, and the different paths their lives have taken.
May 16, 2001 - "Severed Souls: Wrongly Accused, Corrine Sykes, First Black Woman Executed," by Arlene Edmonds, Philadelphia New Observer
February 17, 2001 - Preview screening at the African American Museum of Philadelphia
March 10, 2001 - Part of Youth Media Jam II at Prince Music Theater (Philadelphia, PA)
