Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house. After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder. A black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. When caught, the mother throws her out into the world of Broadway shows. A girl’s mother marries a philanderer, who then pursues the daughter. Wilson! Will the killer be caught by the police, or by bumbling correspondence-school detective Junior Lingley? Wilson shows his valuables to Alihabad, who plans to elope with Margaret a mysterious man hangs around while another burglarizes In a quiet, all-black Oklahoma community live the Wilsons, whose pretty daughter Margaret is courted by awkward Buster and suave stage mentalist Plus 'The Joint is Jumpin' ' by Fats Waller and 'Frim Fram Sauce' by Nat King Cole in a Special Program! Spencer Williams is a con man who poses as a Hollywood acto to advance the fortunes of a small town beauty contest. Dizzie Gillespie and his musical friends have a ball. Special Program with 2 Mills Brothers Soundies,Īmos 'n Andy cartoon and Duke Ellington's 'Symphony in Black' with Billie Holiday. Cab Calloway is a band leader pressured to work in a gangster bar. A bar owner attempts to discredit the new preacher with whom he isįeuding by framing him with a photograph showing him drinking with women with bad reputations. Ralph Cooper in gangster film set in Harlem. 'Little Black Sambo' cartoon, Fats Waller Soundie and Ethel Waters in Lena Horne plays a night club singer who gets a chance at Broadway. A sexy, enticing dancer from Harlem makes things happen in a sleepy Caribbean island Nina Mae McKinney runs afoul of voodoo in Jamaica. Herb Jeffries sings and shoots in a black cast western. A couple of theatrical producers try to get backing for their musical show. Tenants of a Harlem boarding house put on a show to save their home.

Spencer Williams film about an atheist who accidentally shoots his Baptist wife, who must fight the Devil for her soul. Band leader Louis Jordan brought back to help struggling Ware College. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan. The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. Some Black features, cartoons, shorts and musical Soundies from the 1940s have been put together intoīlack Heritage Programs for theaters and film societies.Īll films are available in Mpeg2, Mpeg4 or DVD-R format. These inexpensive but heartfelt little gems spanned all genres - musical, dramatic, western, comedy and even horror - and give a fascinating peak today inside a culture and world that has been largely overlooked by history. From the 1920s thru the mid-1950s many films were made with all African-American casts for distribution to black cinemas and all-black audiences.

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