Title from container. Videodisc release of 75 full-feature and 45 short motion pictures released between 1915 and 1960. Program notes ([12] pages) with synopsis of various films inserted in container.
Contents:
(1947) -- Juke Joint (1941) -- Where's my man tonight? (1943) -- The blood of Jesus (1941) -- Of one blood (1944) -- Souls of sin (1949) -- Beale Street Mama (1946) -- Broken strings (1940) -- The Devil's Daughter (1939) -- Disc 2. Dirty Gertie from Harlem (1946) -- The Big Timers (1945) -- Harlem Rides the Range (1939) -- Dark Manhattan (1937) -- Boarding House Blues (1948) -- Boy! What a Girl (1947) -- All My Babies (1953) -- Bronze Buckaroo (1939) -- Double Deal (1939) -- Palmour Street (1941) -- Disc 3. The Duke is Tops (1938) -- The Emperor Jones (1933) -- Go Down Death (1944) -- Mistaken Identity (1941) -- Gang War (1940) -- Harlem is Heaven (1932) -- Keep Punching (1939) -- No Time for Romance (1948) -- Disc 4. Gang Smashers (1939) -- Murder in Harlem (1935) -- The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) -- The Joe Louis Story (1953) -- Jerico (1937) -- Louisianna (1934) -- Native Son (1951) -- Juke Joint (1947) -- (1932) -- The Black King (1939) -- Straight to Heaven (1939) -- Junction 88 (1947) -- Two Gun Man from Harlem (1938) -- Lying Lips (1939) -- Miracle in Harlem (1948) -- Moon Over Harlem (1939) -- Underworld (1937) -- Hi-de-Ho (1947) -- Mark of the Hawk (1957) -- Disc 6. Tall, Tan and Terrific (1946) -- Murder on Lenox Avenue (1941) -- Mystery in Swing (1940) -- The Big Fella (1937) -- Reet, Petite and Gone (1947) -- Paradise in Harlem (1939) -- Song of Ingagi (1940) -- Way Down South (1939) -- The Negro Soldier (1943) -- Disc 7. Sunday Sinners (1940) -- The Quiet One (1948) -- Spirit of Youth (1937) -- Proud Valley (1940) -- Song of Freedom (1936) -- Ten Minutes to Live (1932) -- The Exile (1931) -- Swing! (1938) -- Disc 8. Sepia Cinderella (1947) -- The Girl in Room 20 (1946) -- The Scar of Shame (1927) -- Sanders of the River (1935) -- Magic Garden (1952) -- The Girl from Chicago (1932) -- The Black King (1932) -- (1943) The Negro Pilots (1946) -- God's Stepchildren (1937) -- Within Our Gates (1920) -- Body and Soul (1925) -- Borderline (1929) -- Symbol of the Unconquered (1920) -- Eleven PM (1928) -- Burlesque in Harlem (1954) -- Disc 10. Lookout Sister (1947) -- Veiled Aristocrats (1932) -- Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955) -- Killer Diller (1948) -- Jivin in Be-Bop (1946) -- Rock and Roll Revue (1955) -- Basin Street Revue (1956) -- New Girl in the Office (1959) -- The Melancholy Dame (1929) -- Framing of the Shrew (1929) -- Oft in the Silly Night (1929) -- Mr. Adams Bomb (1949) -- Boogie Woogie Dream (1944) -- Bubbling Over (1934) -- Murder in Swing Town (1937) -- Disc 11. Rufus Jones for President (1933)-- Music Hath Harms (1929) -- Spying the Spy (1918) -- St. Louis Blues (1929) -- The Negro Sailor (1945) -- Open the Door Richard (1945) -- Answer to Open the Door Richard (1945) -- Broken Earth (1936) -- Natural Born Gambler (1916) -- Barbershop Blues (1937) -- Pie, Pie Black Bird (1932) -- Black and Tan (1929) -- That's the Spirit (1933) -- King for a Day (1934) -- Ration Blues (1944) -- Red Hot Heat (1942) -- A Rhapsody in Black and Blue (1931) -- Symphony in Black (1935) -- The Negro Farmer (1937) -- Disc 12. The Black Network (1936) -- Midnight Menace (1946) -- Hi-De-Hi-Ho (1934) -- Hi-De-Hi-Ho (1937) -- Jittering Jitter-Bugs (1935) -- Jubilee Strictly GI (1932) -- We Work Again (1937) -- Negro Colleges in War Time (1943) -- Integration Report 1 (1960) -- Farmer Henry Browne (1942) -- The Negro in Industry (1962) -- The Negro in Sports (1949) -- The Negro in Entertainment (1939) -- Blues and Boogie (1945) -- Bipp Bang Boogie (1944) -- All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935) -- A Study of Educational Inequalities in South Carolina (1936) -- The Negro Pilots (1943)
Summary:
Presents movies made for and by African-Americans with all Black casts during the first half of the 20th century.
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