Ralph Cooper in gangster film set in Harlem. "Little Black Sambo" cartoon, Fats Waller Soundie and Ethel Waters in Lena Horne plays a night club singer who gets a chance at Broadway. A sexy, enticing dancer from Harlem makes things happen in a sleepy Caribbean island Nina Mae McKinney runs afoul of voodoo in Jamaica. Herb Jeffries sings and shoots in a black cast western. A couple of theatrical producers try to get backing for their musical show. Tenants of a Harlem boarding house put on a show to save their home. Spencer Williams film about an atheist who accidentally shoots his Baptist wife, who must fight the Devil for her soul. Band leader Louis Jordan brought back to help struggling Ware College. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan. The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. Some Black features, cartoons, shorts and musical Soundies from the 1940s have been put together intoīlack Heritage Programs for theaters and film societies.Īll films are available in Mpeg2, Mpeg4 or DVD-R format. These inexpensive but heartfelt little gems spanned all genres - musical, dramatic, western, comedy and even horror - and give a fascinating peak today inside a culture and world that has been largely overlooked by history. From the 1920s thru the mid-1950s many films were made with all African-American casts for distribution to black cinemas and all-black audiences.
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