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Alan Paton : A Profile
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After years of apartheid, open elections were finally held in South Africa in the 1980s. Alan Paton, anti-apartheid activist and author of the internationally acclaimed novel, Cry the Beloved Count...
After years of apartheid, open elections were finally held in South Africa in the 1980s. Alan Paton, anti-apartheid activist and author of the internationally acclaimed novel, Cry the Beloved Country, played a major role in freeing his nation from the yoke of institutionalized prejudice. Here, the author discusses the influences which inspired him to write the novel, and uses passages from it and other works to trace his path from apartheid supporter to anti-apartheid crusader. Paton's own words and those of family and friends reveal the personality of the man who helped launch South Africa's Liberal Party.
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- Creator
- RDF Media Group
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2010], c1996
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (55 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn773480047
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on July 07, 2010.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- Cry the Beloved Country (1:28) -- Alan Paton: Born Teacher (1:32) -- Guilty Courtship (1:39) -- The Great Trek: Afrikaner Nationalism (1:20) -- Giving Up Elitist White Education (2:21) -- Shanty Towns (1:55) -- Reading from "Kontakion For You Departed" (2:00) -- Publication of "Cry the Beloved Country" (1:52) -- 1948: A Watershed Year (1:33) -- Meeting of Longtime Friends Mary Benson & Alan Paton (3:12) -- Film: "Cry the Beloved Country" (2:36) -- Paton Reads a Passage that Insired the Title (0:59) -- South African Liberal Party (2:43) -- The Treason Trial (2:21) -- Paton Family Travels (2:19) -- Paton's Biography of Jan Hofmeyr (1:55) -- Paton's Burden of Resistance (1:54) -- Paton Testifies at Mandela Sentencing (2:07) -- Paton on Nazism and Afrikaner Nationalism (1:43) -- Late Night Phone Call (1:04) -- Death of Dorrie Paton (2:18) -- Parting of Paton and Mainstream Resistance Against Apartheid (3:27) -- Paton Reads from Cry, the Beloved Country (1:04) -- Anne & Alan Paton on Alan Paton (2:58) -- Paton's Farewell Birthday Party (2:43) -- Alan Paton's Death (2:53) -- Credits: Alan Paton: A Profile (1:08)