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Full Record for Film No. 127


Title:Angelou On Burns
Director 1:Elly Taylor
Country:UK
Year:1996 ?
length:48 mins
Colour/b-w:
Genre:documentary
Screenwriter:Maya Angelou
Cinematographer:Paul Riley
Editor:
Producer:Elly Taylor
Production company:Taylored Productions
Cast:Maya Angelou
Location:TABB
TABB No.:74
Synopsis:The African American writer Maya Angelou discovered and was inspired by the work of the Scottish poet Robert Burns at the age of eight. "He was the first white man I read who seemed to understand that a human being was a human being and that we are more alike than unalike." To commemorate the bicentenary of Burns's death, she makes a pilgrimage to Scotland.
Keyword 1:Maya Angelou
Keyword 2:Robert Burns
Keyword 3:Scotland
Keyword 4:white
Keyword 5:black
Keyword 6:literature
Keyword 7:poetry

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