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Company Line

2009 · 30 min

A quiet, reflective documentary that drifts through recollections of a vanished neighborhood, asking patience as voices piece together a community erased by redevelopment.

Directed by
Kevin Jerome Everson
Overview
Company Line is a film about one of the first predominately Black neighborhoods in Mansfield Ohio. The title, Company Line, refers to the name historically used by residents to describe their neighborhood, located on the north side of town close to the old steel mill. The Company Line began during the post–war migration of Blacks from the south to the north in the late 1940’s. The neighborhood was purchased in the early 1970’s and its residents were scattered throughout Mansfield. City employees and former residents of the Company Line narrate accounts of past and present.

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Directed by
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • race
  • class
  • isolation
  • family
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Action0
Horror0
Humour1
Realism10
Romance0
Tension1
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Directed by
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Runtime
30 min
Languages
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