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Madeline Anderson

Pioneering filmmaker and television producer Madeline Anderson is often credited as being the first black woman to produce and direct a televised documentary film, the first black woman to produce and direct a syndicated TV series, the first black employee at New York-based public television station National Educational Television (WNET), and one of the first black women to join the film editor’s union. Anderson went on to become the in-house producer and director for Sesame Street and The Electric Company for the Children’s Television Workshop. During the early 1970s, she also helped create what would become WHUT-TV at Howard University, the country's first, and only, black-owned public television station. Anderson was critical of Hollywood and preferred to work outside of that system.


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Born:
In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
3
First Appeared:
In the movie Sisters in Cinema 2003-05-01
Latest Project:
Movie Survival Skills 2020-03-06
Known For
Poster of Sisters in Cinema
Filmography
Movie Survival Skills Lauren Jenning 2020-03-06
Movie The Off Hours Jenny 2011-01-22
Movie Sisters in Cinema Self 2003-05-01