Pioneers of African-American cinema
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Contributors

Musser, Charles
Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970-
DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
Wood, Bret
David, C.N., film director.

Published

New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2016].

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Table of Contents

Disc 1. Two nights of vaudeville (11 min. ; 1915) / Ebony Films ; [produced by Luther Pollard] ; A reckless rover (14 min. ; 1918) / [produced by Luther Pollard] ; directed by C.N. David ; produced by Ebony Film Corporation ; Within our gates (79 min. ; 1920) / written, produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux ; The symbol of the unconquered: a story of the Ku Klux Klan (59 min.; 1920) / written, produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux ; By right of birth (fragment) (4 min.; 1921) / directed by Harry A. Gant ; produced by P.H. Updike ; screenplay by Dora Mitchell ; story by George Johnson ; Body and soul (93 min.; 1925) / written, produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux ; Screen snapshots (excerpt) (1 min. ; 1920) --

Disc 2. Regeneration (fragment of reel two) (11 min. ; 1923) / directed by Richard Norman ; produced by the Norman Film Manufacturing Company ; The flying ace (65 min. ; 1926) / written, produced and directed by Richard E. Norman ; produced by Norman Studios ; Ten nights in a bar room (64 min. ; 1926) / Colored Players of Philadelphia ; directed by Roy Calnek ; Rev. S. S. Jones home movies (excerpts) (16 min. ; 1924-1928) / directed and photographed by Reverend Solomon Sir Jones The scar of shame (86 min. ; 1929) / Colored Players Film Corporation ; direction by Frank Perugini ; story by David Starkman --

Disc 3. Eleven P.M. (60 min. ; 1928) / written and directed [by] Richard Maurice ; Hell-bound train (50 min. ; c.1930) / [written and directed by James and Eloyce Gist] ; Verdict: not guilty (8 min. ; c.1933) / [written and directed by James and Eloyce Gist] ; The darkroom revue (18 min. ; 1931) / Micheaux Film Corporation ; directed by Oscar Micheaux ; produced by Oscar Micheaux and Alice B. Russell ; The exile (78 min. ; 1931) / [presented by] Frank Schiffman ; Oscar Micheaux's production ; written and directed by Oscar Micheaux ; Micheaux Film Corporation ; Hot Biskits (10 min. ; 1931) / written and directed by Spencer Williams ; produced by Dixie Comedies --

Disc 4. The girl from Chicago (70 min. ; 1932) / [presented by] A. Burton Russell ; Oscar Micheaux's production ; adaptation & direction by Oscar Micheaux ; Micheaux Pictures ; Ten minutes to live (58 min. ; 1932) / [presented by] A. Burton Russell ; adaptation, dialogue & direction by Oscar Micheaux ; Micheaux Pictures Corp. ; Veiled aristocrats (44 min. ; 1932) / written, produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux ; Birthright : a story of the Negro and the South (73 min. ; 1938) / [presented by] Burton Russell ; an Oscar Micheaux production ; adapted by Oscar Micheaux ; distributed by Micheaux Picture Corporation --

Disc 5. The bronze buckaroo (58 min. ; 1939) / Hollywood Productions ; distributed by Sack Amusement Enterprises ; written, [produced] and directed by Richard C. Kahn ; Fieldwork footage (exceprts) (3 min. ; 1928) / [footage shot by] Zora Neale Hurston ; Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (excerpts) (16 min. ; 1940) / filmed by Zora Neale Hurston ; The blood of Jesus (56 min. ; 1941) / Sack Attractions ; Amegro Films ; written and directed by Spencer Williams ; Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (60 min. ; 1946) / [presented by] Alfred N. Sack ; directed by Spencer Williams ; produced by Bert Goldberg ; original story and screen adaptation by True T. Thompson ; The Moses sisters interview (33 min. ; c.1978) / directed and photographed by Pearl Bowser.

Subjects

LC Subjects

African Americans in motion pictures

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Published

New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2016].

Format

DVD

Physical Desc

5 videodiscs (ca. 1227 min.) : silent and sound, black and white and color tinted : 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (76 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)

Language

English

UPC

738329206000

Notes

General Note

Body and soul is based on the novel by Oscar Micheaux. The exile is based on the novel "The conquest" by Oscar Micheaux. The girl from Chicago is based on the story "Jeff Ballinger's woman" by Oscar Micheaux. Ten minutes to live based on three short stories from "Harlem after midnight" by Oscar Micheaux. Veiled aristocrats is based on the novel The house behind the cedars by Charles Chesnutt. Birthright is based on an earlier film of the same title, also by Oscar Micheaux and on a novel by T.S. Stribling.

General Note

DVD release of films originally produced 1915-1946.

General Note

Special features: an introduction to the set and to several of the movies ; featurette on the films of Oscar Micheaux ; featurette on the color line ; featurette on the restorations ; featurette on religion in African-American film ; interview with S. Torriano Berry on James and Eloyce Gist ; featurette on the Tyler Texas Black Film Collection ; featurette on Zora Neale Hurston ; featurette on Spencer Williams ; trailers for some of the talkies ; featurette on the end of the era of race movies ; booklet with essays by Charles Musser, Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, Rhea L. Combs, and Mary N. Elliott.

Creation/Production Credits

Within our gates: New musical score composed by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky.

Creation/Production Credits

Symbol of the unconquered: Music, Max Roach.

Creation/Production Credits

Body and soul: New musical score composed by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky.

Creation/Production Credits

Flying ace: Musical score compiled from historic photoplay music by The MontAlto Motion Picture Orchestra.

Creation/Production Credits

Ten nights in a bar room: Music by Donald Sosin.

Creation/Production Credits

Scar of shame: Photography by Al Liguori ; music composed and performed by Makia Matsumura.

Creation/Production Credits

Eleven P.M.: Music by Rob Gal.

Creation/Production Credits

Hell-bound train: Music composed and performed by Samuel Waymon.

Creation/Production Credits

The exile: Photography by Lester Lang and Walter Strenge ; score by Donald Heywood ; dances staged by Leonard Harper.

Creation/Production Credits

Hot biskits: Cinematographer, Glen Gano.

Creation/Production Credits

The girl from Chicago: Photography by Sam Orleans.

Creation/Production Credits

Ten minutes to live: Photography by Lester Lang ; musical arrangement and floor show staged by Donald Heywood.

Creation/Production Credits

Birthright: Photography by Robert Marshall.

Creation/Production Credits

Bronze buckaroo: Photography by Roland Price, Clark Ramsey ; music by Lew Porter ; art director, Vin Taylor.

Creation/Production Credits

Blood of Jesus: Cinematography, Jack Whitman.

Creation/Production Credits

Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.: Director of photography, John L. Herman ; art director, Ted Soloman.

Participants/Performers

Reckless rover: Sam Robinson.

Participants/Performers

Within our gates: Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault, William Smith, Charles D. Lucas, Bernice Ladd, Ralph Johnson, E.G. Tatum, William Stark, Grant Edwards.

Participants/Performers

Symbol of the unconquered: Iris Hall, Walker Thompson, Lawrence Chenault, Mattie Wilkes, Louis Dean, Leigh Whipper, E.G. Tatum.

Participants/Performers

Body and soul: Paul Robeson, Marshall Rogers, Lawrence Chenault.

Participants/Performers

Flying ace: Lawrence Criner, Kathryn Boyd, Boise De Legge, George Colvin, Sam Jordan, Harold Platts, Lyons Daniels

Participants/Performers

Ten nights in a bar room: Charles Gilpin, Myra Burwell, Lawrence Chenault, Harry Henderson, William A. Clayton Jr., Ethel Smith, Arline Mickey.

Participants/Performers

Scar of shame: Harry Henderson, Norman Johnstone, Ann Kennedy, Lucia Lynn Moses, William E. Pettus, Lawrence Chenault.

Participants/Performers

Eleven P.M.: H. Marion Williams, Sammie Fields, Leo Pope, Orine Johnson, Richard D. Maurice, Wanda Maurice.

Participants/Performers

Darktown revue: Donald Heywood's Choir, Tim Moore, Andrew Trible, Amon Davis.

Participants/Performers

The exile: Eunice Brooks, Stanley Morrell, Celeste Cole, Katherine Noisette, Charles Moore.

Participants/Performers

Hot biskits: Spencer Williams, Thurston Briggs.

Participants/Performers

The girl from Chicago: Carl Mahon, Star Calloway, Alice B. Russell, Eunice Brooks, Minta Cato, John Everett, Cherokee Thornton, Frank Wilson, Grace Smith, Erwin Gary.

Participants/Performers

Ten minutes to live: Lawrence Chenault, A.B. Comathiere, Laura Bowman, Willor Lee Guilford, Tressie Mitchell, Mabel Garrett, Carl Mahon.

Participants/Performers

Veiled aristocrats: Lawrence Chenault, Walter Fleming, Lorenzo Tucker, Laura Bowman, Lucille Lewis, Carl Mahon, Willor Lee Guilford.

Participants/Performers

Birthright: Carman Newsome, S.O. (Ethel) Moses, Alec Lovejoy, Trixie Smith, Hazel Diaz, W. Herbert Jelly, Ida Forseyne, John Ward, Alice B. Russell, Robert Alderdice.

Participants/Performers

Bronze buckaroo: Herb Jeffries, Lucius Brooks, Artie Young, F.E. Miller, Spencer Williams Jr., Clarence Brooks, Lee Calmes, Earl J. Morris, The Four Tones.

Participants/Performers

Blood of Jesus: Spencer Williams, Cathryn Caviness, Juanita Riley, Reather Hardeman, Rogenia Goldthwaite, Jas. B. Jones, Frank H. McClennan, Eddie DeBase, Alva Fuller, Rev. R.L. Robertson and the Heavenly Choir.

Participants/Performers

Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.: Francine Everette, Don Wilson, Kathrine Moore, Alfred Hawkins, David Boykin, L.E. Lewis, Inez Newell, Piano Frank, John King, Shelly Ross, Hugh Watson, July Jones, Spencer Williams.

Description

Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart from the Hollywood establishment, cultivating visual and narrative styles that were uniquely their own.

System Details

DVD, NTSC, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation.

Language

Sound films are in English with optional English subtitles; silent films have English intertitles, some have accompanying music.

Awards

National Film Registry selection, 1991: The blood of Jesus.

Awards

National Film Registry selection, 1992: Within our gates.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Musser, C., Stewart, J. N., DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid., Wood, B., David, C., Gant, H. A., Norman, R. E., Thompson, T. T., Williams, S., Micheaux, O., Maurice, R. D., Gist, J., Gist, E., Calnek, R., Perugini, F., Starkman, D., Kahn, R. C., Hurston, Z. N., Preer, E., Clements, F., Lucas, C. D., Robeson, P., Criner, L., Boyd, K. (., Gilpin, C. S. 1., Chenault, L., Henderson, H., Johnstone, N., Moses, L. L., Williams, H. M., Fields, S., Heywood, D., Brooks, E., Mahon, C., Calloway, S., Russell, A. B. (., Comathiere, A. B., Bowman, L., Tucker, L., Lewis, L., Newsome, C., Moses, E., Lovejoy, A., Smith, T., Jeffries, H., Brooks, L., Young, A., Caviness, C., Riley, J., Everett, F., Stribling, T. S. 1., & Chesnutt, C. W. 1. (2016). Pioneers of African-American cinema . Kino Classics.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Charles Musser et al.. 2016. Pioneers of African-American Cinema. Kino Classics.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Charles Musser et al.. Pioneers of African-American Cinema Kino Classics, 2016.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Musser, Charles, et al. Pioneers of African-American Cinema Kino Classics, 2016.

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