https://mattkprovideo.com/2015/07/18/the-least-of-my-brothers/

This is a documentary I spent 5 years researching and producing!

This was my whole life the entire time.

It is the story of the desegregation of Vidor , Texas and the homicide investigation of the first African American to move there.

I didn’t find the answers I thought I was going to find. But I did find a fascinating story.

I shot it on BetaCam SP and edited on the Avid Media Composer and some photoshop and after effects. I finished it in 1999.  I then re cut it using Final Cut Pro and some new footage shot on a Sony VX2100 DV Camera.

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http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/27/us/one-man-s-arrival-in-town-exposes-a-racial-fault-line.html?pagewanted=all

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-09-03/news/1993246175_1_vidor-simpson-gentle-giant

http://lubbockonline.com/stories/071601/sta_071601059.shtml#.WWf_BP_ysnU

http://www.cityofvidor.com/component/content/article/22-front_page/215-ruth-woods,-former-vidor-mayor-who-opposed-klan-dies

https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0301/01021.html

 

 

I shot this on BetaCam SP with some shots from a VHS camera.  I combined the footage I shot with newsreel footage from KFDM.  I edited everything on the AVID Media Composer 1000 between 1997 and 1999.

A few years later I re edited it to make it shorter and hopefully tighter. I used Final Cut Pro 7 and some After Effects/ Photoshop work.  I also shot some new “B-Roll” of Vidor on a Sony VX2100 mini DV camera.

 

 

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