| Languages | English |
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| Publisher | New York : Kino Lorber, [2016] |
| Copyright | ©2016 |
| Physical Description | 5 videodiscs (1,266 min.) : sound, black and white (some color tinted) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 volume (76 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm). |
| Subjects | African Americans in motion pictures. | African Americans in the motion picture industry — United States. |
| Notes | Disc one. Two knights of vaudeville (1915) — Mercy, the mummy mumbled (1918) — A reckless rover (1918) — Within our gates (1920) — The symbol of the unconquered : a story of the Ku Klux Klan (1920) — By right of birth (1921) — Body and soul (1925) — Screen snapshots (1920). Disc two. Regeneration (1923) — The flying ace (1926) — Ten nights in a bar room (1926) — Rev. S. S. Jones home movies (1924-1928) — The scar of shame (1929). Disc three. Eleven P.M. (1928) — Hell-bound train (circa 1930) — Verdict : not guilty (circa 1933) — Heaven-bound travelers (circa 1935) — The darktown revue (1931) — The exile (1931) — Hot biskits (1931). Disc four. The girl from Chicago (1932) — Ten minutes to live (1932) — Veiled aristocrats (1932) — Veiled aristocrats (trailer) (1932) — Birthright (1938) — Birthright (trailer) (1938) — We work again (1937). Disc five. The bronze buckaroo (1939) — Zora Neale Hurston’s fieldwork footage (1928) — Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 — The blood of Jesus (1941) — Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946) — The Moses sisters interview (circa 1978) — Tyler Texas black film collection (1985). Liner notes. Film form/film function / Paul D. Miller — Race cinema and the color line / Charles Musser — Race movies : a patchwork history / Jaqueline Najuma Stewart — A special discovery : Pearl Bowser and the Moses sisters / Rhea L. Combs — Reverend Solomon Sir Jones : capturing progress in black Oklahoma, 1924-1928 / Mary N. Elliott — Special thanks — Filmography — Suggested reading. Contains Blu-ray discs. |
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