Summer in Mississippi is a 1965 Canadian documentary short from Beryl Fox, produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and first shown on This Hour Has Seven Days.
Summer in Mississippi | |
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Directed by | Beryl Fox |
Written by | Beryl Fox |
Produced by | Beryl Fox |
Cinematography | Richard Leiterman John Foster Grahame Woods |
Edited by | Don Haig |
Distributed by | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
Release date | 1965 (Canada) |
Running time | 27 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Director/producer Beryl Fox traveled to Mississippi after the bodies of the three civil rights workers working for the Freedom Summer project were found in August 1964. This cinéma-vérité documentary was made for the popular television news magazine program This Hour Has Seven Days.[1]
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