Visions of Africa : 4 silent films
D. W. Griffith (Screenwriter, Director), Charles Inslee (Actor), Florence Lawrence (Actor), George Gebhardt (Actor), Arthur Hotaling (Director), Epes Winthrup Sargeant (Director), Siegmund Lubin (Producer), David Horsley (Producer), Fred Montague (Actor), William Clifford (Actor), Patricia Palmer (Actor), Tom Forman (Director), Mary H. O'Connor (Screenwriter), Cynthia Stockley (Screenwriter), Ethel Clayton (Actor), Jack Holt (Actor), Fontaine LaRue (Actor), American Mutoscope and Biograph Company (Producer), Lubin Manufacturing Company (Producer), Centaur Film Company (Producer), Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927) (Producer), Villon Films (Distributor)
"These four films are a representative sampling of early American movie-making and how these films viewed Africans and sub-Saharan Africa. The Zulu's Heart (1908), made by D.W. Griffith and shot in New Jersey is distinguished among other traits by having all its Zulu characters played by whites in blackface; Rastus in the Land of the Zulus (1910) is one of a heavily racist series ridiculing a stereotypical African-American; The Kaffir's Gratitude (1916) depicts the ideal white-serving black; and Sins of Rosanne (surviving segment only, 1920) is about diamond thieves."--Publisher
DVD Video, No Linguistic Content, 2009
Villon Films, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2009