Dr. Steven Channing
Dr. Steven Channing has enjoyed a diverse career as historian and filmmaker, whose work has focused on the American South. He received his Ph.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill and taught at the University of Kentucky, Stanford University and Duke University, as a Fulbright Lecturer in Genoa, Italy, and as a Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He moved into documentary filmmaking in the 1980s, with extensive broadcast and educational film credits, including And Still I Rise: Maya Angelou, America's 400th Anniversary, narrated by Andy Griffith, and This Other Eden, hosted by Patricia Neal.
Film Credits
Additional Audio
John Kline
Ken Conyers
Assistant Producer
Teddie Jacobs
Technical Support
Jessye McDowell
Will Atwater
Rachel Hardy
Judy Van Wyck
Chris Graham
Casey McDonald
Margaret Growe
Communications
Scott Misner
Communications Support
Kathryn Cleary
Laura Covington
Cassandra Criswell
Ashley Cross
Liz Dougherty
Carly Malarz
Stephanie Norris
Nikki Peters
Allison Prisby
Archana Ramesh
Kathryn Williford
Sponsored By
The Southern Documentary Fund
Executive Producer/Producer
Dr. Steven A. Channing
Editor
Tom Vickers
Director of Photography
Warren Gentry
Audio
Cynthia Hill
Co-Producer
Rebecca Cerese
Writers
Dr. Steven A. Channing, with
Rebecca Cerese & Tom Vickers
Music & Score
Scott Pearson
Narrator
Mary Kate Cunningham
Additional Videography
David Tyson
Rex Miller
Martin Brown
Glenn Kantziper
Ed Beilaus
Songs
Some Historical Music & Clearances
Provided by JRM Music & Megatrax Inc., Studio City, CA
“School Days”
By Gus Edwards & Will D. Cobb
As performed on “Dizzy Gillespie at Newport”
Available on Verve Records
“When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again” (1946)
As conducted by James Kern “Kay” Kyser
Provided by the UNC Southern Folklife Collection
Used with kind permission by the Kyser Family
“John Brown’s March”
From the CD “Southern Soldier”
Courtesy of the 2nd South Carolina String Band
“Bus Rider Blues” by Blind Boy Fuller
From Blind Boy Fuller Vol. 6 1940
Available from Document (USA) and
Used by Special Permission
“People”
By Lovejoy from the CD
“Joy to the World” Vol.1”
Courtesy of Faculty Entertainment
& Joyride Entertainment, Durham
“Stranger Blues”
As recorded by John Dee Holeman on Bull Durham Blues
Courtesy Music Maker Relief Foundation
“Durhamite”
Written by Jason Fagg & Bart Matthews
Courtesy of The Water Callers
“Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (that Cigarette)”
By Merle Travis
As performed by Doc Watson
Courtesy of Rounder Records
The “Secret Game” Re-enactment
Funding Provided By
The Duke Endowment
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina
Liggett-Vector Brands, Inc.
GlaxoSmithKline
Capitol Broadcasting Corporation
The Fox Family Foundation
Suntrust
Duke University Medical Center
Downtown Durham Merchant’s Association
Measurement Inc.
BC Powder, Inc.
The BIN Foundation
McKinney-Silver
Duke University Office of Public Affairs
Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce
Blue Devil Ventures
Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
Wachovia Foundation
Duke Energy
K.v. Dey
NC Institute of Minority Economic Development
Skanska
Fairway Outdoor Signs
Greenfire Development
WTVD
The Durham Morning Herald-Sun
Gene McDonald
Verizon
C.T. Wilson
John Atkins
Mary Hill
Kenan Rand
Piedmont Investment Advisors, Inc.
Fox 50
Downtown Durham, Inc.
Adam Abrams
Charles Sanders
Carolina State Bank
Aluminum Company of NC
David R. Carr Jr.
NC Mutual Insurance Company
Frank Ward
RBC Centura Bank
Kay P. Gresham
Mary Holderness
Barker French
Willis Whichard
Louise McKutcheon
Self-Help Credit Union
Dianne Pledger
Costume
Amy Massey
Makeup
Dee Stedman
NC College Eagles Team
Coach John McClendon – Michael Raysor
Errol T. McCauley Jr.
David McGhee-Green
Jonathan Jackson
Garnell Smith
Brian Bridges
Referee
Owen Imafidon
Duke University Navy Medical Team
Coach Jeffrey Alguire
Robert Carlson
Andy Crewson
Gary Bernstein
Rob Baird
Daniel Henry
Scott Misner
Special Thanks to All Interviewees
Additional Thanks To:
Tom White
Harold Moore
Eileen Watts Welch
Charles Watts
Lynn Richardson
John Schelp
Evelyn Contre
Betty Wilson
Wake County Public Schools
Washington Elementary School
S&T’s Soda Shoppe
Bullock’s Barbeque
Footage Provided By:
WTVD
Fox 50
N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Company
Virginia Coupland
Meredith Emmit
HBO Real Sports
Vanderbilt University
NBC News
ABC News
Voice Over Recorded at:
Horizon Video Productions
Archival Audio
UNC-Chapel Hill
Photos & Additional Footage:
Bill Boyarsky
Billy Barnes
Durham Herald-Sun
Durham County Library
Duke University
National Archives
N.C. Dept. of Cultural Resources
Jack Moebes
Hayti Heritage Center
N.C. Central University
Duke University Watts School of Nursing
Raleigh News & Observer
Rice Diet Center
Violet Aldrich
Pete & Lavonia Allison
Dr. William G. Anlyan
Dr. Brenda Armstrong
Sue Beischer
Kelly Bryant
Bill Burns
Elaine O’Neal
Watts Carr
Michael Calhoun
Julius Chambers
Mary Cole
Frank DePasquale
K.v. Dey
Ariel Dorfman
Dr. Robert Durden
Charles Dunham
Martin Eakes
Meredith Emmit
Eli Evans
Odell Fields
Elijah “Pookie” Fisher
Dr. John Hope Franklin
Nathan Garrett
Rubye Gattis
Deborah Giles
Margaret Goodwin
Wensell Grabarek
Lynn Grossman
Jim Goodmon
Wib Gulley
Scott Harmon
Andrea Harris
Jim Hawkins
Carolyn Henderson
John Herrera
Dr. Charles Johnson
Margaret Kennedy
Michele Lee
John D. Loudermilk
Eddie Lovejoy
William Andrew Marsh, Jr.
M. McCullough
Charlie Means
H.M. “Mickey” Michaux Jr.
Rev. Douglas Moore
Jim Morgan
Katherine Meyers
Dr. Frank Nealon
Dr. Barbara Newborg
Elton O’Neal
Ellis O’Neal
Reuben O’Neal
William “Tap” Patterson
Dianne Pledger
Reynolds Price
Andie Preiss
Mattie Riley
Alex Rivera
Harry Rodenhizer
Leonard Rogoff
Ben Ruffin
Eunice O’Neal Sanders
Vivian Sansom
J.C. “Skeepie” Scarborough
Mary D.B.T. Semans
Walker Stone
Carolyn Thornton
Dr. Charles Watts
Constance Watts
Walter B. Weare
Mena Webb
Carl Webb
Virginia Williams
Durham: A Self-Portrait
A Video Dialog Inc. Production
© 2007
Durham: A Self-Portrait 150 (2019)
Special Thanks To
Alliance Architecture
Giorgios Bakatsias
Bull City Mini Golf
John Burness
Capitol Broadcasting Corporation
The Carolina Theatre
Nancy Clapp-Channing
Durham Fruit
Ashley Grimes
J. Gunn & the Made In Durham Youth Network, “No Potholes for Our Life Goals”
Shane Jones
Michael Lee
Jesse McCoy
Sonika Rawal
Mark Schultz
Reneaki Smith & “The Art of Cool”
Jesse McCoy
Saladelia
Starks Films & “Black Wall Street”
Sean Lilly Wilson
G. Yamazawa “Cackalacky”
The “Brain Trust”
Lana Garland
Derrick Beasley
Roxana Bendezu
D'atra Jackson
Bob Korstad
Henry McCoy
Melissa Norton
Aidil Ortiz
Sam Parker
Saleem Reshamwala
Karin Shapiro
Doug Speight
Saba Taj
Alexandra Valladares
Film Credits
Sponsored By
The Museum of Durham History
The Southern Documentary Fund
Funding Provided By
The BIN Foundation
Bull City Design
Center Studio Architecture
The Duke Endowment
Duke University Health Affairs
Durham 150 Committee
Victor & Ruth Dzau
Carl Webb
Chuck Wilson
Producer/Writer
Dr. Steve Channing
Director/Editor
Warren Gentry
Co-Producer
Cindy Gardiner
Second Camera
Isaac H. Green
Audio
Kenny Conyers
Music & Score
Scott Pearson
Interviewees
Giorgio Bakatsias
Stephen Barringer
Bill Brian
Vandana Dake
Lois DeLoatch
David Dodson
Pierce Freelon
Michael Goodmon
Isaac Green
Joshua Gunn
Scott Harmon
John Herrera
Michael Lee
Elaine O’Neal
Eliazar Posada
Kinesha Pate
Pilar Rocha-Goldberg
Camryn Smith
Casey Steinbacher
John Warasila
Carl Webb
Nia Wilson
Ann Woodward
Dr. Eugene Washington
Durham: A Self-Portrait (2007)
https://tubitv.com/movies/446229/durham_a_self_portrait
Funding & Production Credits for Durham: A Self-Portrait (2007)
Are also available at:
Durham: A Self-Portrait 150
A Video Dialog Inc. Production
© 2019
Video Dialog Inc.
Over the decades, Steve and his company Video Dialog Inc. have created lasting portraits of North Carolina life and its rich history. Channing produced the Emmy Award-winning historical drama Alamance for PBS, as well as the nationally broadcast Civil Rights classic February One, the story of the Greensboro Sit-Ins. Other regional documentaries include Durham: A Self-Portrait, Down Home, about the state’s Jewish community, Change Comes Knocking: the Story of the North Carolina Fund, Generation of Change: Bill Friday, Terry Sanford and North Carolina, 1920s-1972, and Remarkable Journey, on the Asian Indian diaspora to North Carolina.
Steve is the co-founder of the Southern Documentary Fund, promoting independent film production throughout the American South, and an early member of the board of the Museum of Durham History. He is proud to present the updated Durham: A Self-Portrait as one of the closing events of the 2019 year of celebration.