Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
- Documentary
4/19/1975
52
Storyline
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
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Cast
Ossie DavisNarrator
George JohnsonSelf (archive sound)- Lorenzo TuckerSelf (archive sound)
- Lucia Lynn MosesSelf (archive sound)
Fredi WashingtonSelf (archive sound)- Henry ArmstrongSelf (archive footage)
- Josephine BakerSelf (archive footage)
- Leslie BanksSelf (archive footage)
- Clarence BrooksSelf (archive footage)
- Cab CallowaySelf (archive footage)
- Walter ConnollySelf (archive footage)
- Miriam CooperSelf (archive footage)
- Dudley DiggesSelf (archive footage)
- Duke EllingtonSelf (archive footage)
- Marcus GarveySelf (archive footage)
- Lillian GishSelf (archive footage)