4 Little Girls [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Maxine McNair Walter Cronkite Chris McNair Fred Lee Shuttlesworth Wyatt Tee Walker
	Video by:	Hbo Home Video
	Sales Rank:	81317

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Actor(s):
Maxine McNair
Walter Cronkite
Chris McNair
Fred Lee Shuttlesworth
Wyatt Tee Walker

Creators:
Ellen Kuras (Cinematographer)
Spike Lee (Producer)
Daphne McWilliams (Producer)
Jacqueline Glover (Producer)
Michele Forman (Producer)
Samuel D. Pollard (Producer)
Sheila Nevins (Producer)

Director(s):
Spike Lee

Recording label: Hbo Home Video
EAN: 9780783112732
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 0783112734
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC,
Release Date: 1999-01-12
Universal product code (UPC): 026359147838
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)

Amazon.com
There are many remarkable things about the documentary 4 Little Girls. Spike Lee's striking, beautifully realized film is a cinematic lesson of what kind of material is better suited to the documentary format. In his first documentary, Lee shares an attribute of Ken Burns: the major event in his documentary is not seen on camera. Except for four quick glimpses of black-and-white autopsy photos, the picture stays clear from the bombing. Lee remains with the faces, the girls' friends, families, and the historic figures of the era. They've all grown up since the bombing but their memories haven't faded. The vital facts of the case are certainly here: the troubled history of Birmingham, the court proceedings, friends' last run-ins with the girls. What touches us deeper though are those witnesses telling us of living through the core era of segregation and bigotry: a father explaining to his child why she can't have a sandwich in a cafeteria and a woman offering up tears of past events. There's even an interview with George Wallace, the prince of segregation, that belongs in a David Lynch feature. Lee's film asserts the bombing energized the civil rights movement and when the voice of America, Walter Cronkite, echoes those sentiments, you believe he may have it right. --Doug Thomas

Running time: 102 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)