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Prudence Arndt is known for I Am Not Your Negro (2016), The Kings (2021) and The Five Demands (2023).
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Award-winning Archival Producer/Interview Consultant with 25+ years experience finding footage, stills and audio as well as producer/director credits on Frontline, WNET and AM...
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Prudence has found footage and photos for numerous award-winning documentaries including Whoopi Goldberg presents Moms Mabley, Project Nim, Regarding Susan Sontag, Why We Fight and Free to Run. Prudence Arndt and Debbie Ford are one of three finalists for the Footage Team of the Year Award, to be selected by FOCAL International and AP archive ...
Prudence Arndt’s Post [Video] Archive Producer. 16h. Happy to have been the Archive Producer on "The Universe in a Grain of Sand," directed by Mark Levinson. This is a truly original...
Dec 2, 2021 · PRUDENCE ARNDT ( Director of Archival Research) has alternated between directing/producing documentaries and archival research. She was associate producer on Eyes on the Prize I, nominated for an Academy Award.
- Framing History
- Blackside, Inc.
- America, They Loved You Madly
- Eyes on The Prize: A Fledgling Start
- Structure and Objectives
- Civil Rights School
- Production Teams and Crew Biographies
- Conclusion: Making Television History
Producing Eyes on the Prize was more than a labor of love. For Executive Producer Henry Hampton, it was an ambition he harbored for more than half his life, one that led him to sacrifice money, opportunity, and his own material welfare to realize. Eyes I grew out of Hampton’s earlier, failed television project, America, They Loved You Madly.12 Yet ...
In 1968, Henry Hampton established Blackside, Inc., a film production company that aimed to increase Black representation both onscreen and behind the camera. "Two things coincided: the Black Power movement and my own personal need for independence," Hampton reflected.14 Before Eyes on the Prize, most of the films Blackside produced were "industria...
Of the 127 interviews included in this exhibit, about 36 were filmed for Eyes’ predecessor, a planned two-hour commercial television documentary, America, They Loved You Madly. In 1978, in the wake of the critical and commercial success of the television adaptation of Alex Haley’s Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Hampton was approached by Cap...
The format of Eyes on the Prize evolved over time. In a March 10, 1980, letter to Eyes’ narrator, Julian Bond, the project’s research consultant, Judy Richardson, wrote that the series would be two hours long and divided into four half-hour segments.19 Ultimately, Eyes I would consist of six episodes running just under one hour each. After the film...
Hampton and his team ultimately succeeded in producing a narrative-driven documentary series in which the complex human drama at the center of the civil rights movement comes to the fore. They were able to do so, in part, thanks to Eyes I's straight-forward structure and clarity of focus, which allow its subject matter to take center stage. Perhaps...
In preparing to make Eyes on the Prize, Hampton arranged for scholars, activists, and folk and gospel singers to come to the Blackside offices. From July 22 to August 22, 1985, they participated in what Hampton called "civil rights school," sharing their knowledge and experience of the movement with the Eyes I crew. "It was like going to grad schoo...
During production, Hampton assembled three teams of interviewers, identified by the letters A, B, and C. Each team included one man and one woman, one Black and one white. According to Else, this was by design; Hampton wanted each team’s work to reflect its member’s divergent viewpoints, rooted in their different experiences. The "Blackside method"...
Reflecting on the initial reception of Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, Callie Crossley recalled, "We started doing some small screenings around Boston. I thought people would like it, but I wasn’t prepared. And then it just started building from there. I realized, "Oh, this is going to be something!"27 Eyes on the Prize profoundly ...
Prudence Arndt is known as an Producer, Archival Footage Coordinator, Associate Producer, Researcher, and Assistant Editor. Some of their work includes Why We Fight, I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale, Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire, Addiction Incorporated, and Eyes on the Prize.
