- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
color and b/w.
fullscreen. sound - stereo.
- Notes:
- Special features include: two excerpts from Zora Neale Hurston’s ethnographic fieldwork footage (3.02 minutes); booklet with essays and program notes.
Titles
+ Bronze Buckaroo, The
- Director:
- Kahn, Richard C.
- Production Co:
- Hollywood Productions
- Running Time:
- Feature. 58 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1939
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Drama, Western, African - American Interest
- Notes:
- Bob Blake, the good cowpoke and his sidekick Dusty fight it out with Bradley in a gun battle intended to avenge the death of Miss Margaret Dennison's father.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Blood of Jesus, The
- Director:
- Williams, Spencer
- Production Co:
- Amegro Films
- Running Time:
- Feature. 56 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1941
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Drama, African - American Interest
- Notes:
- A religious parable about a woman, accidentally shot by her husband, who travels to the crossroads of the hereafter.
+ Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.
- Director:
- Williams, Spencer
- Production Co:
- Sack Amusement Enterprises
- Running Time:
- Feature. 60 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1946
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Drama, African - American Interest
- Notes:
- Adapted from the W. Somerset Maugham story “Miss Thompson,” about a nightclub entertainer who arrives at a Caribbean resort near a military base until intolerant reformers ban her style of entertainment.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Moses Sisters Interview, The
- Director:
- Bowser, Pearl
- Production Co:
- National Museum of African-American History
- Running Time:
- Short. 33 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- ca. 1978
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Documentary, African - American Interest, Female Directors
- Notes:
- An interview with Ethel, Lucia, and Julia Moses about their years in African-American cinema and on the segregated variety stage.
+ Tyler Texas Black Film Collection
- Production Co:
- Southern Methodist University
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1985
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- African - American Interest, Documentary
- Notes:
- Promotional film hosted by Ossie Davis, reenacting the discovery of a warehouse filled with the vintage film prints that would become the Tyler Texas Black Film Collection at Southern Methodist University.