Arthur Hall - Renaissance on Sacred Ground (2011)

15 minutes, color and black & white, digital video
Materials from the Arthur Hall Collection as listed below
Nana Korantema, narrator
Bruce Williams, producer and editor

00:00 Arthur Hall dancing at the Ile Ife Center on Germantown Avenue and singing Ebuyumi from Ray Hartung's ILE IFE: House of Love, a 16mm film used extensively and cited below as (Hartung 1974)
Nana Korantema, narration used throughout, cited as (Nana 2008)

01:26 Sign over door at Ile Ife Center and statement by Arthur Hall from Penn State Public Television's portrait of Arthur's Hazlett Award, program produced by Wm. Gary Perdue (Penn State 1980)
Montage of dance class at Ile Ife conducted by members of Saka Acquaye's Wulomei troupe from Ghana, 16mm film, Bruce Williams, camera (Wms 1980)

01:52 Arthur Hall Statement and Watusi dance (Hartung 1974); Arthur Hall statement from 1993 address at Pennsylvania Academy of Art (AHC 1993)

02:25 Steve Jackson statement from Scribe Video's Renaissance on Sacred Ground, Daryl Burgee, El Sawyer, et al, producers (Scribe 2009)
Montage: (Hartung 1974) and (Wms 1980)

02:38 Norman Mills Statement (Scribe 2009)
Montage: (Hartung 1974) and Obatala in Philadelphia Museum of Art (Wms ca. 1982)

03:02 Barbara Kinney statement (Scribe 2009)
Montage: (Hartung 1974) and Orpheus at the Shubert Theater (Orpheus 1973)

03:12 to 06:48 Music from (Orpheus 1973), Odean Pope, music director; possibly Farel Johnson, lead vocals

03:22 Saint Elmo McKelvey statement (Hartung 1974)
Montage: Marvin Gaye Suite (Promo ca. 1985), Obatala (Wms 1982), (Orpheus 1974), Hurobo Water Spirit (Promo ca. 1985), Nana Korantema with Arthur at Hazlett Awards (Wms 1980), Clement 'Chucky' Josephs drumming (Promo ca. 1985), Snake Dance Teacher Dance (Wms 1977)

04:12 Saka Acquaye and Wulomei arrive at JFK for US tour, greeted by Arthur and Dini Zulu (Wms 1980)

04:31 Rita Cottman-Johnson statement (Scribe 2009)
Montage: Rhythm of Life Concert (AHC 1995), (Scribe 2009), (Hartung 1974), (Wms 1993)

05:02 James Crawford statement (Scribe 2009); Montage: (Hartung 1974)

05:41 Norman Mills statement (Scribe 2009); Montage: (Hartung 1974)

05:51 James Crawford statement (Scribe 2009); Montage: (Hartung 1974)

05:59 Norman Mills statement (Scribe 2009); Montage: (Hartung 1974)

06:20 Norman as Benny Black, the gambler in Fat Tuesday and all that jazz!, Wesley O. Brustad, producer (Brustad 1977)

06:25 Akom processional, C. Edward White as king (Brustad 1977)

06:32 Rita Cottman-Johnson statement (Scribe 2009); Montage: (Orpheus 1973)

06:49 Akom in Fat Tuesday with sync sound (Brustad 1977)

07:06 Arthur Hall statement (Hartung 1974)

07:15 Yanvallu master class at Movement Theater International (Wms 1995); (Nana 2008); children dance 'Sacred Grove' from Snake Dance (Wms 1977), Fat Tuesday (Brustad 1977)

08:09 Odunde procession ca. 1980, 16mm, B. Williams, camera; Kofi Asante, voice over.

08:25 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (MRN #1436), Arthur, Farel, Norman, and Nii-Ayi (Obrafo Yaw Asiedu) with Fred Rogers; children's song Tche Tche Kule added

08:54 Tche Tche Kule in Townshend, Vermont (Wms 1990)

09:04 Hurobo Water Spirit in Lebanon, New Hampshire (Wms, W.P. Foss 1989), (Nana 2008), (Wms 1977), (Hartung 1974)

09:29 Arthur sings and dances 'Kandua Aye' in Accent Ghana Concert (AHC 1997), Walter Bobson, camera; excerpt of Arthur's speech at Pennsylvania Academy of Art (AHC 1995)

10:31 Fat Tuesday (Brustad 1977), Carnival music by Dejan's Olympia Brass Band; Elizabeth Roberts in elaborate costume; star turns by Betty Alridge; Shirley and Thomas Myles as the lovers; Ron Payton, Father Saint John; Milton Batiste, lead trumpet; Nsia, the Indian princess; Evangeline Brown, Marie Laveaux, the voodoo queen; William Russell, violin

11:58 Arthur receives the Hazlett Award from Jimmy Stewart and Governor Dick Thornburg in the rotunda of Harrisburg (Penn State 1980)

12:07 "Take my hand, Precious Lord" (lyrics by Thomas A. Dorsey, melody by George Nelson) jazz funeral by Olympia Brass Band (Brustad 1977); (Nana 2008); earliest known film of Arthur by Jorge Preloran; Obatala and Requiem for Adam Rhythm of Life concert (AHC 1995); (Wms, Foss 1989); Orisun Omi (Wms 1978); drummers at the Hazlett Arards: Gamel Williams, his father Joseph "Jojo" Williams, et al (Wms 1980)

12:47 Carnival finale from the Rhythm of Life concert, Bridget Kelley, ballerina (Wms 1995)

13:42 Excerpt of Arthur's speech at Pennsylvania Academy of Art (AHC 1995); curtain calls at Rhythm of Life concert (AHC 1995) and African Harvest for the World concert (AHC 1996) both at the Camden Opera House and Accent Ghana at the Rockport Opera House (AHC 1997); the gentleman Arthur calls to the stage is Kingsley Karimu of the Embassy of Ghana in Washington, DC