CULTURETECHLENSWilliam Greaves
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Combined Graph record U-03512 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-1372. Master record source: User-supplied review 2026-10-17 (Once Upon a Time in Harlem review, Oct 15, 2026) — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Independent filmmaker; shot the 1972 Harlem Renaissance reunion footage; director of Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968); executive producer on Black Journal; d. 2014
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Independent filmmaker; shot the 1972 Harlem Renaissance reunion footage; director of Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968); executive producer on Black Journal; d. 2014
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- Role(s): Independent filmmaker
- Known for: Independent filmmaker; shot the 1972 Harlem Renaissance reunion footage; director of Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968); executive producer on Black Journal; d. 2014
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- Once Upon a Time in Harlem — appeared in
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- From These Roots — authored by → this record
- Once Upon a Time in Harlem — authored by → this record
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One — authored by → this record
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- https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/william-greaves-39 (verification source · master store)
Evidence note (master store)
Filmmaker William Greaves, born in New York City and raised in Harlem; formed William Greaves Productions in 1964; his first feature film, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, was released in 1968; he began producing television's Black Journal in 1968 (aired until 1970, Emmy 1969); producer of From These Roots and more than 200 documentary films.
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