“You can’t unring the bell”
Investigation
You Can’t Unring the Bell is a series of artifacts that are verbatim performances of six moments from history related to voting rights in America, starting in March 1965 and moving up through December 2019. Given that 2020 was the centenary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, we cast women to perform some of the men represented in these original clips.
You Can’t Unring the Bell was created for NYU’s 2020 Constitution Day Celebration: Voting Rights in America. It premiered on September 23, 2020, in a Zoom webinar format and featured commentary and discussion provided by Jack Knott, Dean of NYU Steinhardt, and Franita Tolson, Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
NYU Constitution Day 2020 Performance
Production Credits
Created by
Keith R. Huff
Joe Salvatore
Tammie L. Swopes
Costume Coordinator:
Márion Talán de la Rosa
Video Editor:
Andy Wagner
Investigated and Performed By
Andrea Ambam
Durell Cooper
Daryl Embry
Analisa Gutierrez
Suzy Jane Hunt
Scott Michael Morales
Ashley Renee Thaxton-Stevenson
Rachel Tuggle Whorton
NYU-TV Production Team
NYU-TV Technical Manager
s.o. O’Brien
New Media & TV Technician
Kevin Gannon
Content Specialist
Nora Lambert
NYU-TV Video Production Coordinator
Patricia Martinez
Director, NYU-TV & the Television Center
Toni Urbano
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