South Central L.A.: Inside Voices recording collection
Scope and Contents
South Central L.A.:Inside Voices (1994) was an American TV movie documentary of interviews and self-documentation of residents of South Central Los Angeles in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Filmmakers Maxi Cohen and Wendy Apple distributed Hi-8 camcorders to members of the community to capture their experiences.
Collection includes primarily Umatic tapes of interviews for the documentary South Central L.A.:Inside Voices (1994). Other formats in the collection are betacam, VHS, D2, 16mm film, and 35mm film. Languages represented in recordings are English, Spanish, and Korean. Also present are project files, which include interview transcripts, expense records, memos, and tax information.
The majority of materials are housed at the Grand Archive, while boxes 46-48 are housed at the Doheny Memorial Library.
Dates
- Creation: 1992 - 1994
Creator
- Cohen, Maxi (Director, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access. The majority of materials are housed at the Grand Archive, while boxes 46-48 are housed at the Doheny Memorial Library.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Biographical / Historical
The 1992 Los Angeles riots were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County in April and May of 1992. Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department charged with using excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King.
South Central L.A.:Inside Voices (1994) was an American TV movie documentary of interviews and self-documentation of residents of South Central Los Angeles in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Filmmakers Maxi Cohen and Wendy Apple distributed Hi-8 camcorders to members of the community to capture their experiences.
Extent
75.375 Linear Feet (67 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Korean
Spanish; Castilian
Abstract
Collection consists primarily of Umatic tapes of interviews for the American documentary South Central L.A.:Inside Voices (1994), which depicted interviews and self-documentation of residents of South Central Los Angeles in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Also present are project files, which include interview transcripts, expense records, memos, and tax information.
Acquisition
Gift of Maxi Cohen, 2001.
Processing Information
This collection is minimally processed.
Subject
- Cohen, Maxi -- Archives (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid for South Central L.A.: Inside Voices recordings collection
- Status
- Minimally Processed
- Author
- Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
- Date
- 2023 February
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu