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Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait

Composer and musician Jenny Scheinman wrote the score for a film comprised of 70-year-old archival footage.
Jenny Scheinman
Composer and musician Jenny Scheinman wrote the score for a film comprised of 70-year-old archival footage.
Composer and musician Jenny Scheinman wrote the score for a film comprised of 70-year-old archival footage.
Credit Jenny Scheinman
Composer and musician Jenny Scheinman wrote the score for a film comprised of 70-year-old archival footage.

North Carolina photographer Herbert Lee Waters created more than 200 films of people in communities across North and South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.

He called the collection Movies of Local People, and he showed the films at small theaters so the subjects could see themselves on screen. Host Frank Stasio talks with singer, composer and violinist Jenny Scheinman and director Finn Taylor about their experimental documentary project

Now, more than six decades later, his work is being revived as part of an experimental documentary project called Kannapolis A Moving Portrait.

The work features music by singer, composer and violinist Jenny Scheinman. The world premiere is tonight at Reynolds Industries Theater at 8 p.m. Host Frank Stasio talks with Scheinman and director Finn Taylor about the work.

  https://vimeo.com/106545179

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.