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Take a Giant Step

This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.

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Take a Giant Step

December 1, 1959
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Cast (15)

Johnny Nash
Spencer Scott
Estelle Hemsley
Grandmother Martin
Ruby Dee
Christine
Beah Richards
May Scott
Ellen Holly
The Girl in the Bar
Royce Wallace
Rose Thompson
Roy Glenn
Minister
Bernie Hamilton
Bar Sharpie

Crew (11)

Directing

Philip Leacock
Director

Writing

Julius J. Epstein
Screenplay
Louis S. Peterson
Screenplay
Louis S. Peterson
Theatre Play

Production

Sound

Jack Marshall
Original Music Composer

Art

Edward Carrere
Art Direction
Oliver Emert
Set Decoration
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration

Camera

Arthur E. Arling
Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

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Crew

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Editing

Frank Gross
Editor

Lighting

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Visual Effects

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