Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

01/01/1981

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0hr 29min

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Documentary

STORY

Marlon Riggs and Peter Webster’s thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and ’50s, when an influx of African American shipyard workers mostly hailing from Louisiana and Texas arrived in the Bay Area. Combining vintage photographs, archival footage, interviews, and performances at venues like Eli’s Mile High Club, Riggs and Webster chronicle Oakland’s vibrant past while revealing an uncertain present.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • J.P. Phillips

    Directors

  • Marlon Riggs
  • Peter Webster

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • University of California Berkeley

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English