In the Shadow of Hollywood : : Race Movies, and the Birth of Black Cinema
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Special features making-of featurette, selected race movie short, list of lost race movies, slide show of Washington, DCs historic Lincoln Theatre, resources for information on Race Film Era.
Narrator: Lawrence Varnado.
"They were called race movies - films produced during the first half of the 20th century as a direct response to Hollywood's negative portrayal of Blacks in cinema. Race movies starred all-Black casts, were intended for all-Black audiences, and were often the work of pioneer Black fimmakers like Oscar Micheaux and Spencer Williams. Unfortunately, all but a fraction of the 500 race movies made were lost." -- container.
DVD ; full fram format (1.33:1) ; region 1.
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SERIES
Black history uncovered.
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
English.
PUBLISHED
Dallas : AMS Production Group, 2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., b&w, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Osborne, Brad.
Strietfeld, Andy.
AMS Production Group.
SUBJECTS
Blacks in the motion picture industry.
African American motion picture actors and actresses.
African American motion picture producers and directors.
Documentary films.
Feature films.