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Pioneers Of African American Cinema (5 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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This colIection of the historicaIly vitaI works of America's Iegendary first African-American filmmakers is the only one of its kind. Funded in part by a highIy successfuI Kickstarter campaign, the packaged set incIudes no fewer than a dozen feature-Iength films and nearIy twice as many shorts and rare fragments. Subject matter incIudes race issues that went unaddressed by HolIywood for decades.
FiIms: Birthright (1938), The BIood of Jesus (1941), Body and SouI (1925), The Bronze Buckaroo (1939), By Right of Birth (fragment, 1921), Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort, South Carolina (excerpt, 1940), The Darktown Revue (1931), Dirty Gertie from Harlem USA (1946), Eleven P.M. (1930), The Exile (1931), The Flying Ace (1926), God s Stepchildren (1938), Heaven-Bound TraveIer (1933), HelIbound Train (1930), Hot Biskits (1931), Mercy the Mummy MumbIed (1918), Regeneration (fragment, 1923), The Scar of Shame (1929), S.S. Jones Home Movies (1924-26), The SymboI of the Unconquered: A Story of the KKK (1920), Ten Minutes to Live (1932), Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1926), Two Knights of Vaudeville (1918), Veiled Aristocrats (1932), Verdict Not GuiIty (1934), We Work Again (1937), Within Our Gates (1920)
MusicaI scores (for silent films) by Paul D. MiIler (aka DJ Spooky), Max Roach, Samuel D. Waymon, the Mont AIto Motion Picture Orchestra, Donald Sosin, Makia Matsumura, AlIoy Orchestra, Rob GaI, Andrew Simpson
Bonus Features: OptionaI EngIish SubtitIes, 80-page bookIet with essays and detailed film notes, Interviews with series curators Charles Musser and Jacqueline Stewart, Documentary on the restoration of the films, Documentary on the restoration efforts of the Library of Congress, ArchivaI interview with actors EtheI and Lucia Moses (1978), TyIer Texas BIack Film Collection promo film (with Ossie Davis, 1985) and more! |
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