Preceded by short:
Margaret Mead: A Portrait by a Friend.

Strange Fruit is an exploration of the history and impact of the famed anti–lynching protest song, its lyrics and music written in the late 1930s by Abel Meeropol, a progressive, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx, and made famous by Billie Holiday. This piece looks at the song as a product of a specific historical moment, and at its immediacy through its continued relevance. Includes interviews with Abbey Lincoln, Meeropol's two adopted sons Michael and Robbie Meeropol, Amiri Baraka, and Amina Baraka. Work–in–progress.

Margaret Mead: A Portrait by a Friend (Jean Rouch, U.S., 1977). A frank and loving portrait of Margaret Mead after the first Mead Festival by ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch. Rouch, as cameraman, and a young John Marshall (N'ai! Story of a !Kung Woman) follow Mead from her office at the Museum of Natural History, through the meandering corridors of the museum, and down Central Park West as she ponders her legacy and considers the future. (30 mins, Video, From AMNH Library Dept. of Special Collections)