Louis Guida is an award-winning producer and director whose documentaries include When You Make a Good Crop (1986), a CINE Golden Eagle winner about Italian American farmers, and All Day and All Night (1990), a New Directors/New Films entry about the music of Beale Street.

The Louis Guida Collection assembles materials related to Guida’s 1992 documentary Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, which presents the life of disc jockey, civil rights radio reporter, and blues singer/songwriter Arnold Dwight “Gatemouth” Moore, best known for his hit “Did You Ever Love a Woman?” Winner of an American Film and Video Festival blue ribbon, Guida’s documentary explores the links and tensions of the sacred and secular in African American culture, as well as chronicling Moore's life from band leader to evangelical preacher. The collection includes the complete 16mm footage shot for the making of Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, as well as audiocassette and printed transcripts of interviews of subjects appearing in the film, such as “Gatemouth” Moore and his wife Walterine Moore, Al Green, Benjamin Hooks, Rufus Thomas, and B.B. King. .

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