- Directed by
KAREN THORSEN
Produced by
KAREN THORSEN
&
WILLIAM MILES
Co-Produced by
DOUGLAS K. DEMPSEY
Associate Producers
JOY BIRDSONG
JOE WOOD
Edited by
STEVEN OLSWANG
Co-Editing by
SANDRA GUTHRIE
Director of Photography
DON LENZER
Sound Recordist
PETER MILLER
Written by
KAREN THORSEN
DOUGLAS K. DEMPSEY
Still Photo Animation
CHRISTOPHER KOGLER
ROB ISSEN
Additional Photography
BILL DILL
GREGORY ANDRACKE
TIMOTHY C. HOUSEL - Senior Researcher
JOY BIRDSONG
RESEARCH – U.S. & FOREIGN
Dorothy Alleyne
Leisa Jenkins
Amy Seplin
Karin Wilkinson
Karen Wvatt
Julian Seymour
Monique Leveque Polgar
Simone Reber
Juanita R. Howard, Ph.D.
Marta Balletbo-Coll
BLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE - GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
- WITNESSES
- SCHOLAR / ADVISORS
- This Project was Funded by
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
FORD FOUNDATION
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
WNET, NEW YORK / AMERICAN MASTERS
LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION (G.B.)
LA S.E.P.T.-TV (FRANCE)
NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
SASAKAWA PEACE FOUNDATION (JAPAN)
NORTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL
NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES
EPISCOPAL COMMISSION FOR BLACK MINISTRIES
FALK FOUNDATION
POLAROID FOUNDATION
BYRON & PEPPER BINKLEY
Fiscal Sponsor
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
Advisor: Lynda Hansen - In-Kind Contributions
- ATTORNEY
David S. Singer
ASS'T. CAMERA (FUNERAL)
Jim Williams
Duncan Forbes
Bobby Cohen
GAFFER (HARLEM CHURCH)
Ned Hallick - ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE
- COLOR BY DUART
A Special Thank You to Linda Young & Irwin Young
and the Staff of DuArt Laboratories, Inc.
MAIN TITLE DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION BY
Rich, Butts & Gittens / The Solution - ARCHIVAL FILM SOURCES
- STILL PICTURE SOURCES
- – And –
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Graphic & Still Photo Design
DOUGLAS K. DEMPSEY - A SPECIAL THANK YOU
- – And –
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine - Jimi Hendrix Courtesy of Leo Branton, Inc. &
Alan Douglas, Are You Experienced?, Ltd.
James Baldwin's Vocal, "O Precious Lord"
Produced by David Linx for his Album
"A Lover 's Question"
Piano on "O Precious Lord" by
CHARLES DARDEN
"O Precious Lord" Recording Produced by
and Copyright ©1989 by
James Baldwin Project
Executive Producers
SUSAN LACY
ALBERT MAYSLES
A Karen Thorsen Production
in Association with
Maysles Films, Inc. & WNET, New York
This motion picture is protected under laws of the United States and other countries. Unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution.
© 1989 - 2026 James Baldwin Project
JAMES BALDWIN: THE PRICE OF THE TICKET
-- Production Credits --
| Assistant Camera: | TOM KRUEGER |
| Additional Sound: | MICHAEL KARAS |
| ROGER PHENIX | |
| PAUL COTE | |
| Assistant Editor: | CLOVER CANNADY |
| Sound Editor: | SANDRA GUTHRIE |
| Asst. Sound Editor: | LISE LEBEUF |
| Juanita: | Diana Sands |
| Richard Henry: | Al Freeman, Jr. |
| Mother Henry: | Hilda Haynes |
| Meridian Henry: | Percy Rodriguez |
| Parnell James: | Pat Hingle |
| Directed by: | Burgess Meredith |
| Gabriel Grimes (father): | Paul Winfield |
| John Grimes (son): | James Bond III |
| Produced by: Directed by: | Robert Geller Stan Latham |
| Dr. Maya Angelou | William Styron |
| Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) | Engin Cezzar |
| David Baldwin | Yashar Kemal |
| David Leeming | James Briggs Murray |
| Lucien Happersberger | Frances Foster |
| Bernard Hassel | Bobby Short |
| William Cole | Cynthia Packard |
| Ishmael Reed | Alexa Birdsong |
| Dr. Maya Angelou | David Baldwin |
| Howard Dodson | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
| David Leeming | James Snead |
| AIR FRANCE | MANHATTAN TRANSFER |
| APPLE COMPUTERS, INC. | SOUND ONE |
| EASTMAN KODAK, INC. | PHOTO·SONICS, INC |
| TIME, INC. | THE HIT FACTORY |
| N.Y. COMMUNITY TRUST | STUDIO FILM & TAPE |
| GENERAL CAMERA | THE TAPE HOUSE |
| Meredith Woods | Laura Eicholz |
| Walis Johnson | Vildan Sevker |
| Pola Rapaport | Zeynep llgin |
| Donna Gray | M. P. LeVasseur |
| RE-RECORDING: | Peter Waggoner, Sound One |
| FILM-TO-TAPE: | Ron Brower, Manhattan Transfer |
| OPTICALS: | Mel Wolpin, Videart |
| DuArt Laboratories | |
| TAPE-TO-FILM: | Image Transform, Inc. |
| NEGATIVE MATCH: | Stan Sztaba, World Cinevision |
| VIDEO TRANSFERS: | Audio Plus Video |
| SOUND TRANSFERS: | ToddAO |
| ABC-TV, New York | National Black Archives |
| Thomas Ayck | of Film & Broadcasting, Inc. |
| BBC·TV, England | National Council of Churches |
| Lebert Bethune | London Weekend Television |
| CBS-TV, New York | Miles Educational Film Prod. |
| The Dick Cavett Show | KQED-TV, San Francisco |
| Herb Graff | NOS-TV, Netherlands |
| Learning In Focus | N. Y. Center for Visual History |
| Sedat Pakay | Fox Television Stations, Inc. |
| Ernie Smith | Rick Spalla Video Prod. |
| FOX MOVIETONEWS | Studio Hamburg, Germany |
| The National Archives | RSTR-TV, Switzerland |
| WNET-TV, New York | Thames TV, England |
| WTN | WGBH-TV, Boston |
| Architectural Digest | Esquire Magazine |
| Dr. Maya Angelou | Freedomways |
| Gordon Baer, PEOPLE | Jacques Gomot |
| David Baldwin | Harper's Magazine |
| Beacon Press | Bernard Hermann |
| Alexa Birdsong | Matt Herron |
| Black Star | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Engin Cezzar | Hubert le Champion, LIFE |
| Yves Coatsilou | David Leeming |
| Commentary | Danny Lyon |
| Walter Dallas | Magnum |
| Frank Dandridge, LIFE | St. Martin's Press / Marek |
| Doubleday / Dial Press | Daniel H. Minnassian |
| Ed van der Elsken | Charles Moore |
| The Nation | Steve Schapiro |
| The New Leader | Leslie Schenck |
| N.Y. Board of Education | Donna Schrader |
| The New York Times | Peter Shiras |
| The N.Y. Review of Books | Bobby Short |
| Cynthia Packard | Harvey Stein |
| Sedat Pakay | Boris Chaliapin, TIME |
| Partisan Review | Wide World Photos |
| Petrified Films | Geoffrey Wolff |
| Chicago Defender | Alfred A. Knopf |
| The Baldwin Family | Dr. Kenneth Clark |
| Albert & Gillian Maysles | Walter Dallas |
| The Maysles Films Staff | Emile Capouya |
| Lynda Hansen, N.Y.F.A. | Jerome Smith |
| Don Marbury | Ellis Haizlip |
| Harlene Freezer | Gulriz Sururi |
| Diane Dufault | Carl Falsgraf |
| Ani de Ia Jara | Philip B. Hallen |
| Barbara Preiskel | Kendall Christiansen |
| Lynn Walker | John B. Stokes, MHT |
| Clarence Jones | Henri Hervé |
| Michael Lawrence, NAACP | Cristine Collin |
| Michael Small | Sam & Dani Mezrahi |
| John G. Avildsen | Prudence Arndt |
| Susan Froemke | David Leitner |
| Deborah Dickson | Susan C. Korda |
| Anne Belle | Kathy Dougherty |
| Marcel Dumont | Lynn Sullivan |
| Arthur Barron | Sandy Titsch |
| Pierre Koralnik | Laura Sklar |
| Joe Lovett | David Linx |
| Harry Moses | Hugh A. Hill |
| Bob Faw | Dan Weissman |
| Gil Noble | Lisa Livingston |
| St. Clair Bourne | Bill Nisselson |
| Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee | Phillip Fenty |
| Alan Neigher | Andrew Heiskell |
| Lalia M. Giordano | Jason McManus |
| Central Holiness Church | Gil Rogin |
| Co-Pastor Whitted | Richard B. Stolley |
| & Raymond Ray | John Calley |
| Gloria McNeal | Jason C. Berger |
| La Colombe d'Or | Missie Rennie |
| Univ. of Massachusetts | Onita Estes-Hicks, Ph.D. |
| The Negro Ensemble Co. | Dr. Eleanor Traylor |
| Linda Demerit | Dr. Ernest Champion |
| Richard Korn | Catherine McLaughlin |
| Sandi Skodnik | Irma McLaurin-Allen |
| Val Coleman | Marc Crawford |
| Howard Chapnick | Shirley Sands |
| Elizabeth & | Joseph Wood, Sr. |
| John Rice | Vic Losic |
| Dave Pomeroy | Anthony Jamieson |
| Janet Cosby | Beth Simon |
| Blanche Brann | Beverly Roberts |
| Roy Lewis | Arthur Katz |
| Mildred Garris | Dr. Lionel McMurren |
| Alain Cinquini | Gerald O'Grady |
| Joe DeGennaro | Dr. Dean Ornish |
| Claire Burch | Cristina Ventry |
| Leo Branton | Jeremy Birkbeck |
| Wallace & Emy Thorsen | John & Helen Dempsey |
| "MOTHERLESS CHILD" | "MOURNFUL SERENADE" |
| Traditional, Arranged by Odetta | Jelly Roll Morton |
| Recorded by Nobody Knows | Bluebird Records |
| "BALDWIN FUNERAL DRUMS" | "IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD" |
| Babatunde Olatunji | (I. Mills, D. Ellington, M. Kurtz) |
| & Friends | Duke Ellington & John Coltrane |
| Live Recording ~ JBProject | Impulse! |
| "0 PRECIOUS LORD" | "SEHNAZ LONGA" |
| (T. A. Dorsey) | Santuri Ethem Efendi & |
| Arranged by James Baldwin | "HUSEYNI SIRTO" |
| Recorded by David Linx | Tamburi Cemil Bey, Monitor Records |
| "WHY DO I LIE TO MYSELF | "WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED" |
| ABOUT YOU!" | The Freedom Singers |
| Fats Waller, Bluebird | Mercury Records |
| "BLUE WALK" | “ERNIE’S TUNE” |
| (B. Golson) | (D. Gordon & V. Arnold) |
| James Moody, Prestige | Dexter Gordon, Blue Note |
| "NAlMA" | "PEACE IN MISSISSIPPI" |
| John Coltrane | Jimi Hendrix |
| Atlantic Records | Warner/Reprise, Bella Godiva |
| "BLOODCOUNT" | "HAVE A LITTLE TALK WITH JESUS" |
| (Billy Strayhorn) | & "I'M SINGING IN MY SOUL" |
| Duke Ellington | Arr. by Bobby Short & David Baldwin |
| Bluebird | Recorded by Nobody Knows |
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