oral history

Filmmaker Alexis Aggrey employs Marshall’s voice to guide the film, taken from a Feb. 15, 1977, recording by Ed Edwin meant to serve as an oral history.

“I think government’s there to help the people who can’t help themselves. And there’s a lot of people that can’t help themselves,” Burton said, describing his view of a politician’s job in an oral history interview by Open California.

Filmmaker and Oscar nominee Noisecat combines powerful journalism and oral history in showing the complexity of modern Indigenous life.

Some will accuse Spinal Tap of going for a cynical cash grab with this new film, which will be accompanied by a new album and a written oral history, “A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap.”

Living in tenements and walk-ups, and making friends of all races and ethnicities, he learned self-reliance, resilience and cultural fluency, as he recounted in a 2007 oral history for Northeastern University’s Lower Roxbury Black History Project.