Series: The Ten O'Clock News
Date: 1984-06-15
Duration: 00:05:29

Subject: African American artists; Art and Artists
People: Banks, Ellen; Crossley, Callie; Lopoukhine, Andre;

Clip Description
Callie Crossley reports on Ellen Banks (painter). Crossley interviews Banks, who talks about how she expresses music visually through her paintings. Crossley notes that the patterns of shapes and colors in Banks' paintings represent music. Crossley reports that each painting is based on a piece of music. The report includes footage from an interview Andre Lopoukhine (owner, Lopoukhine Gallery), who says that gallery visitors are intrigued by Banks's work. Crossley explains that Banks has based paintings on the work of composers Erik Sati, Mozart, and Scott Joplin. She adds that Banks has recently started working with spirituals. The report includes shots of Banks's work. Some shots of her paintings are accompanied by music.

Series Description
A local program aimed at the Boston audience, The Ten O'Clock News debuted on January 15, 1976. Its two immediate predecessors were The Reporters and Evening Compass. A news and public affairs show focusing on neighborhood, local and state issues, The Reporters was produced and broadcast on WGBH from 1970 to 1973. The Reporters was then replaced by Evening Compass, which expanded into a twice-nightly news broadcast during the tense moments of Boston's busing crisis. On the air from 1973 to 1975, Evening Compass found an audience through its in-depth coverage of school desegregation in Boston, which began in 1974. The Ten O'Clock News stood out as an in-depth news program. It strove for a balance between local and national stories, between politics and the Arts. The last The Ten O'Clock News program was broadcast on May 30, 1991.

See also: http://main.wgbh.org/ton/programs/4136_02