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date: label: Date
content: 1975
name: label: Directed by
content: Steven York
label: Narrated by
content: Ossie Davis, American, 1917 - 2005
label: Subject of
content: Paul Robeson, American, 1898 - 1976
label: Subject of
content: Fredi Washington, American, 1903 - 1994
label: Subject of
content: George Johnson
label: Subject of
content: Lorenzo Tucker, American, 1907 - 1986
label: Subject of
content: Lucia Lynn Moses, American, 1908 - 1984
label: Owned by
content: D.C. Public Library, American, founded 1896
notes: label: Caption
content: This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide variety of African American and African diaspora content.
label: Description
content: Film clips from a documentary film with the title Black Shadows on a Silver Screen. It consists of a single reel of black-and-white 16mm polyester film with variable-area optical sound.
label: Description
content: The documentary explores the history of African Americans in film in the early 20th century through the use of archival footage of scenes with black actors or films made by black filmmakers. Some of the actors and films discussed include Paul Robeson in films such as Emperor Jones and others, Duke Ellington's Black and Tan Fantasy, Cab Calloway in Hi De Ho and Oscar Micheaux's The Girl from Chicago. The narrator also describes the various genres of films African Americans appeared in such as race films, westerns and biographical films, as well as the financial challenges filmmakers who produced race films eventually began experiencing.
place: label: Place used
content: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
title: label: Title
content: Film clips from Black Shadows on A Silver Screen (Part Two)
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Actors
label: Topic
content: Documentary films
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Race discrimination
label: Topic
content: Race films
label: Topic
content: Race relations
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: DC Public Library Film Collection
label: Classification
content: Time-based Media - Moving Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Transferred from the DC Public Library
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2017.55.17.1a
objectType: label: Type
content: sound films
label: Type
content: black-and-white films (visual works)
label: Type
content: 16mm (photographic film size)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions likely apply. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: polyester film
label: Dimensions
content: Duration: 31 Minutes
label: Dimensions
content: Length (Film): 1100 Feet