- Created by
- Cerf, Charlotte
- Moore, Allen, American, born 1952
- Owned by
- D.C. Public Library, American, founded 1896
- Date
- 1990
- Medium
- polyester film
- Dimensions
- Duration: 26 Minutes
- Length (Film): 950 Feet
- Caption
- This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide variety of African American and African diaspora content.
- Description
- A documentary short with the title Black Water. It consists of a single reel of color 16mm polyester film with variable area optical sound.
- The documentary focuses on the effects of water pollution in a river in Sao Braz, Bahia, Brazil. Through translated first-hand accounts, the film shows how pollutants discharged from factories and a paper mill upstream affects local residents.
- Place used
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Bahia, Brazil, Latin America, South America
- Collection title
- DC Public Library Film Collection
- Classification
- Time-based Media - Moving Images
- Topic
- African diaspora
- Documentary films
- Film
- Nature
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2017.55.12.1a
- Restrictions & Rights
- Restrictions likely apply. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




