Director

Madeline Anderson

Directing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 4

TMDB ID: 1487747

IMDb ID: nm7507414

Known for: Directing

Place of birth: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1960 - 1973

Years active: 14

Wikidata: Q19866758

Frequent jobs

Director (2)Editor (1)Producer (1)

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Biography

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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