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===College===
Burnett first enrolled at [[Los Angeles City College]]<ref name=ans/><ref name='Washington-Post'>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/01/AR2007060100494.html|title=From L.A. Hotbed, Black Filmmakers' Creativity Flowered|first=Ann|last=Hornaday|date=3 June 2007|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=2 October 2011|quote=In 1967, after studying electrical engineering at Los Angeles Community College, Burnett arrived at UCLA to study film. For the next 10 years, UCLA students would develop a fecund, cosmopolitan and politically engaged movement that came to be unofficially known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers.}}</ref> to study electronics in preparation for a career as an electrician.<ref name=KOS/> Dissatisfied, he took a writing class and decided that his earlier artistic ambitions needed to be explored and tested. He went on to earn a BA in writing and languages at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]].<ref name=nybio>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121104050516/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/83593/Charles-Burnett/biography Charles Burnett – Biography – Movies & TV – NYTimes.com]. Movies.nytimes.com (1944-04-13). Retrieved on 4 July 2011.</ref>
In an interview for ''[[Cahiers du Cinéma]],'' Burnett speculated that "a serious speech impediment" may have led him to become a filmmaker: <blockquote>I always felt like an outside--an observer--who wasn't able to participate because I couldn't speak very well. So this inability to communicate must have led me...to find some other means to express myself...I really liked a lot of the kids I grew up with. I felt an obligation to write something about them, to explain what went wrong with them. I think that's the reason I started to make these movies.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Reynaud |first=Bérénice |date=1991 |title=An Interview with Charles Burnett |url=https://doi-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.2307/3041690 |journal=Black American Literature Forum |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=326 |via=JSTOR}}</ref></blockquote>
===UCLA Film School and the Black Independent Movement===
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