| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (74 min.)) ; sound, black and white |
| Series |
Pioneers of African American cinema |
| Summary |
In this early silent film from pioneering director Oscar Micheaux, kindly Sylvia Landry (Flo Clements) takes a fundraising trip to Boston in hopes of collecting 5,000 dollars to keep a Southern school for impoverished black children open to the public. She then meets the warmhearted Dr. Vivian (William Smith), who falls in love with Sylvia and travels with her back to the South. There, Dr. Vivian learns about Sylvia's shocking, tragic past and realizes that racism has changed her life forever |
| Notes |
Title from title frames; credits from Wikipedia |
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Preserved by the Library of Congress's Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Sound Division in 1993 |
| Credits |
New musical score composed by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky |
| Cast |
Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault, William Smith, Charles D. Lucas |
| Notes |
Silent film with music, and intertitles in English |
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The original English intertitles remain lost, except in four cases where brief frames of the English titles were inadvertently left when the Spanish version was created. Intertitles in this restoration are a translation from Spanish back into English, reconstructed by Scott Simmon |
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African Americans -- Drama
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African Americans -- Violence against -- Drama
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African American women -- Drama
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African Americans -- Violence against
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African Americans
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African American women
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| Genre/Form |
Silent films
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Race films
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Fiction films
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Drama
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Feature films
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Silent films.
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Race films.
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Films de fiction.
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Films muets.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951, film director, film producer, screenwriter.
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Preer, Evelyn, actor.
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Clements, Flo, actor.
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Ruffin, James D., actor.
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Chenault, Jack, actor.
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Smith, William (William S.), actor.
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Lucas, Charles D., actor.
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DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, composer (expression)
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Simmon, Scott, translator.
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Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, restorationist (expression)
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