Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
52'
1975-04-19
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Actor, writer, director and activist Ossie Davis narrates this look at the history of race films, those produced from the 1920s-50s catered to a primarily Black audience.
Narrator
Ossie Davis
Self (archive sound)
George Johnson
Lorenzo Tucker
Lucia Lynn Moses
Fredi Washington
Self (archive footage)
Henry Armstrong
Josephine Baker
Leslie Banks
Clarence Brooks
Cab Calloway
Walter Connolly
Miriam Cooper
Dudley Digges
Duke Ellington
Marcus Garvey
Lillian Gish
Jack Johnson
Noble Johnson
Walter Long
William Lundigan
Mae Marsh
Clarence Muse
William E. Pettus
Bud Pollard
Paul Robeson
Henry B. Walthall
Ethel Waters
Bert Williams
Spencer Williams
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