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Black shadows on a silver screen.

This history of black filmmakers between 1900-1950 demonstrates the fact that motion pictures made by blacks in the early days of the film industry were intended to portray black people as they saw themselves, as opposed to the way white filmmakers showed them on the screen

Film, English, ©1975
Distributed by Lucerne Films, Cliffside Park, N.J., ©1975