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Wikipedia article




'Time and Dreams' is a 1976 documentary created by Mort Jordan, a graduate student at Temple University, about residents of Greene County, Alabama and its changing racial history.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu4zkxK6Bdk Mort Jordan discusses "Time and Dreams", a documentary on race in Alabama-Tuscaloosa News on YouTube]

Summary



Filmed in black-and-white, it features voiceovers of white residents reflecting on political and racial changes in Greene County in the wake of the civil rights movement.

Reception



The film was a runner-up for a Student Academy Award. A review from 1979 by Robert Hemenway described its importance as a document of "attitudes toward tradition" in the South, but criticised the "concentration on white perceptions of blacks, leaving only the narrator to expose flaws in such visions".

Rediscovery



Besides the rare screening, the film remained relatively obscure and had no iMDb listing, until the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 2017. It had initially been recommended by the manager of Temple University's film archive, Leonard Guercio. The Registry called it "a unique and personal elegiac approach to the civil rights movement."

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