Tara Bitran | The Hollywood Reporter The University of Chicago professor will present Silent Sunday Nights starting Sept. 15. Beginning Sunday, Sept. 15, Turner Classic Movies will have a fifth host to introduce the uncut and uninterrupted films of the Silent era:...
https://vimeo.com/167489223 Director: Spencer Williams, Oscar Micheaux, Richard E. Norman, James Gist, Eloyce Gist, Richard C. Kahn Writer(s): N/A Starring: Paul Robeson, Ethel Moses, Spencer Williams, Evelyn Preer, Herb Jeffries, Zora Neale Hurston Synopsis: This...
Shadow & Act | Sergio Mims We’ve certainly talked a lot about this new Kino Lorber five-disc Blu-Ray/DVD set, “Pioneers of African-American Cinema,” but we wouldn’t be doing it if it wasn’t so vital and important. Nearly 500 independently produced black films...
A little-known chapter of film history, the “race film” - funded, written, produced, directed, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color – flourished from the 1920s into the 1940s. Previously circulated only in poor-quality 16mm prints, these newly restored...
Nearly 500 ‘race films’ were produced in the US between 1915 and 1952 but lost due to a combination of neglect and poor preservation, yet a new project shines spotlight on the early 20th-century films of Oscar Micheaux and others By Ashley Clark | The Guardian...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKcypY1tYuk Director: Spencer Williams Writer(s): True T. Thompson (original story) Starring: Spencer Williams, July Jones, Inez Newell, Leonard Duncan, Dauphine Moore, Melody Duncan, Katherine Moore, Tilford Patterson, Albert Smith,...
https://youtu.be/rB82w0Ame6M Director: Richard C. Kahn Writer(s): Spencer Williams (original story "House of Horror") Starring: Zack Williams, Laura Bowman, Alfred Grant, Daisy Bufford, Arthur Ray, Spencer Williams, Earle Morris, Jesse Graves, The Toppers, Maggie...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AQWzj6vhbg Director: Richard C. Kahn Writer(s): Richard C. Kahn, Fred Myton Starring: Herb Jeffries, Marguerite Whitten, Clarence Brooks, Mantan Moreland, Matthew ‘Stymie’ Beard, Spencer Williams, Mae Turner, Jess Lee Brooks, Rosalie...
Director: Sam Newfield Writer(s): Fred Myton, F.E. Miller Starring: Herb Jeffries, F.E. Miller, Mantan Moreland, Consuelo Harris, Maceo Bruce Sheffield, Spencer Williams, George Randol, Nathan Curry, Edward Brandon, James Davis, The Four Tones (Lucius Brooks, Rudolph...