Frame-up

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1974

Creator: : the imprisonment of Martin Sostre / a film by the Pacific Street Film Collective : Steven Fischler, Joel Sucher, Howard Blatt.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Credits: Fischler, Steven.; Sucher, Joel.; Blatt, Howard.; Page, Tony, 1957-; Pacific Street Film Collective.; University of California (System). Extension Media Center.

Description: Additional credit at end: The Pacific Street Film Collective gratefully acknowledges the generous assistance of: Nancy Baker, Tina Barrow, Heywood Burns, Paul Chevigny, Larry Cox, Andy Ferullo, Cindy Firestone, Dan Foreman, Marilyn Katz, Barbara King, Henry Lawrence, Don Lenzer, Fern McBride, Gerry Pallor, Barbara Parmet, Radio Free People, Lloyd Ritter, Herman Schwartz, WBAI, WKBW Television. This film was made possible by grants from The Louis Rabinowitz Foundation, The CAPS program of the New York State Council on the Arts.; Copyright on film: 1974, Pacific Street Film and Editing Co.; Running time: 29:37.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Prison poem, Tony Page.; This documentary chronicles the possible frame and conviction of Black activist Martin Sostre. The owner of three black bookstores in Buffalo known for their selections of subversive political literature, Sostre was arrested in 1967 for the sale of heroin and for inciting riots. Convicted to 30-41 years in prison, Sostre continues to claim his innocence. The film suggests his arrest as a a frame in order to punish Sostre for his political beliefs. Includes interviews with Sostre, witnesses, police officers and other figures involved with the case, as well as footage of the Buffalo "ghetto riots" of the summer of 1967.--Peter De Domenico, 6/94.; PFA 1612-01-5274. D0004; PFA 1612-01-5274. CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 1994 Jun 23 Peter De Domenico; scratches; splices; faded; Good condition: color faded slightly; lightly scratched throughout; good sound quality; head and tail leader and UC EMC logo tape-spliced onto print; one tape splice (1065 ft., 8 fr.); edge code: 2 S

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE