Draft:Barbara Hussie

Barbara Hussie (1920–1997) was an American women producer and director of documentary films for the US Information Agency, one of the few women to create films for the organization.

Biography

Hussie was born in Pennsylvania, attended Germantown Highschool, and worked for WFIL radio station in Philadelphia.[1] In 1950, she moved from being CBS script secretary to the newly created post of casting director for Hollywood.[2] After having worked for a New York advertising agency and volunteering n the 1952 Republican presidential campaign,[3] she then worked briefly on President Dwight D. Eisenhower's White House staff before joining the USIA in 1954.[4] She was appointed producer-director at USIA in 1960.[5]

Hussie was "one of the first female writers, directors or producers at the Information Agency." Her work with the USIA included subjects on black Americans and their contributions to art, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and artifical intelligence. Among her other works was a documentary about the jazz musician Herbie Mann. She retired from the USIA in 1980.

Filmmography

  • Herbie Mann, Man With a Flute (1960), for USIA
  • The Filmmaker (1969), written, produced, and directed by, about filmmaker Tom Palazzolo, for USIA
  • The Journalist, written, produced, and directed by, for the USIA Adventure Africa series (No 30)
  • The Entrepreneur: Malcom Arbita, written, produced, and directed by, for the USIA Adventure Africa series (No 47)
  • The American Experience (1971), for USIA, featuring vignettes and readings from American literature of the past two centuries set to "Fanfare for the Common Man" by Aaron Copland
  • Afro-American History--Black Scientists and Inventors in the US (1976), for USIA, including stories of over 20 Black achievers such as chemists, technicians, electricians, mathematicians, physicians, physicists, and scientists
  • Afro-American History--Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution (1977), for USIA, narrated by the actor Moses Gunn
  • Afro-American History--The Arts (1977), for USIA
  • The Films of Frederick Wiseman (1978), for USIA, in which film critic and author David Denby interview filmmaker Frederick Wiseman[6]

References

  1. ^ Going Forward with Radio: As Presented by WFIL, 1947.
  2. ^ Broadcasting Telecasting 38(15), April 10, 1950, p.46.
  3. ^ The Philadelphia Inquirer; Friday, February 28, 1997
  4. ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/02/27/the-rev-andrew-kuroda-dies/120d0a56-c0dc-42c3-bde0-ac55e9bd604a/
  5. ^ State, United States Department of (1961). The Biographic Register of the Department of State. General Editing Branch, Division of Publications. p. 342.
  6. ^ Inventories of Voice of America (VOA) legacy analog recording data assets, p.32.

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