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[Identification of item], in the Maggie Holtzberg and Barry Dornfeld Collection on Gandy Dancers Documentary Film #20240, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Maggie Holtzberg (1955-) and Barry Dornfeld (1958-) were co-directors and producers of the 1994 documentary film Gandy Dancers. The film featured retired African American railroad workers sharing their stories, musical traditions and railroad calls.

Maggie Holtzberg is a folklorist with a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and the author of The Lost World of the Craft Printer and Portrait of Spirit: One Story at a Time. She has served as the folklife program director at the Georgia Council for the Arts and the manager of the folk arts program at the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Barry Dornfeld is a documentary filmmaker whose other films include Eatala: A Life in Klezmer, LaVaughn Robinson: Dancing History, Look Forward and Carry on the Past: Stories from Philadelphia’s Chinatown, and Plenty of Good Women Dancers: African-American Women Hoofers in Philadelphia. He holds a PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Dornfeld has taught at New York University and worked at a management consulting firm.