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>
> From: Miriam Dow [mirdow@GWIS2.CIRC.GWU.EDU]
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Over the last six years I've been working on
> acquiring a small film
> library at George Washington University, with not
> much encouragement. Now we have a new dean who is
> very keen on Film Studies, and the possibility of
> a little more money.
>
> I would be very grateful for some advice on what
> constitutes a basic
> African Film Library--I know this is hovering in
> the neighborhood of
> canon-formation, but please overcome your
> revulsion to such an exercise
> and help me out! We now have most of the films in
> the California Newsreel Catalogue, plus Umm
> Kulthum, The Silences of the Palace, Everyone's
> Child, Neria, Hidden Faces.
>
> We have no Sembene Ousmane, and other very serious
> gaps. I would appreciate your advice very much.
>
> Sincerely,
> Miriam Dow
> Department of English
> The George Washington University
> Washington D.C. 20052
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