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Title In black & white / BBC Education & Training ; a Russ Karel film ; based on a suggestion by Jeremy Isaacs ; written by Russ Karel, Gordon Parks ; produced by Sarah Patterson.

Publication Info. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2006.

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 Moore Video  PN1995.9.N4 I53 2005    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium monochrome
Description digital
optical
video file
DVD video
Performer Narrator: William Greaves.
Commentary: William Dillard, Gordon Parks, Robert Earl Jones, Billy Rowe, Dick Campbell, Edna Mae Harris, William Greaves, Harold Nichols.
Credits Photography, Ray Brislin ; supervising editors, French Horwitz, Russ Karel ; music, Russ Karel.
Note Videodisc release of a documentary originally produced in 1992 for BBC television.
System Details DVD.
Summary Using archival newsreels, feature film footage and interviews with Afro-American actors and directors, this film explores the inception, struggle, suppression, and survival of the Black cinema from the 1920s through the 1950s. This documentary, a stinging indictment of racism in the arts and in American culture, examines the lives and influence of Paul Robeson, Josephine Baker, Oscar Micheaux, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Marcus Garvey and many others on Afro-American cinema.
Subject Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940.
Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940.
Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946.
Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946.
Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951.
Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- History.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
History.
African Americans in motion pictures -- History.
African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry -- History.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African American motion picture actors and actresses -- Interviews.
African American motion picture actors and actresses.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Subject African American motion picture producers and directors -- Interviews.
African American motion picture producers and directors.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Racism.
United States.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject African Americans -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media.
Jazz -- 1921-1930.
Jazz.
Chronological Term 1921-1930
Genre/Form Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Subject Racism.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Added Author Karel, Russ.
Isaacs, Jeremy, 1932-
Dillard, William.
Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006.
Jones, Robert Earl, 1904-2006.
Rowe, Billy.
Campbell, Dick, 1903-1994.
Harris, Edna Mae, 1910-1997.
Nichols, Harold J., 1945-
Patterson, Sarah.
Greaves, William.
BBC Education & Training.
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.
Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Note Title on disc label and container: In black and white : black cinema
Added Title Black cinema
Music No. FFH 7297 Films for the Humanities & Sciences