Black Cinema Treasures Lost and Found

Name: Black Cinema Treasures Lost and Found
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ISBN: 9781574410280

ISBN-10: 1574410288

ISBN-13: 9781574410280

Edition: Reprint

Authors: G. William Jones, Ossie Davis

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Focusing on a much-neglected area of film experience in America, Black Cinema Treasures furthers the preservation of America’s cultural and historic heritage, especially its African-American heritage as seen through the eyes of the African-American independent filmmakers of the 1920s through the 1950s. Ossie Davis says that the collection is one of the best sources of black self-consciousness” in America during those decades.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 242
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




Foreword




Introduction


King Tut's Warehouse: Finding the Films


The Non-White World of All-Black Cinema



Some Pioneer Black Filmmakers


Oscar Micheaux: the Dean of Black Filmmakers


Spencer Williams


William Alexander


George Randol



The Tyler, Texas, Black Film Collection


The Blood of Jesus


Dirty Gertie from Harlem, U.S.A.


The Girl in Room 20


Juke Joint


Marching On


Midnight Shadow


Miracle in Harlem


Murder in Harlem (Lem Hawkins' Confession)


Souls of Sin


By-Line Newsreels (Four Episodes)


Other Short Films in the Collection


Broken Earth


Boogie Woogie Blues


Daughters of the Isle of Jamaica


Harlem Hot-Shots


Junior Jeeps


Vanities



Comments from Some of Today's Black Filmmakers


How the Films Were Produced, Distributed, Exhibited - and What Became of the System


What Black Independent Films Meant to the Black Community


Working With Spencer Williams



A Final Comment: "We Could Have Been Friends"



Independent Black Films, 1910-1957



Books About Black Independent Filmmaking: 1910-1960


Index