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Pioneers of African-American Cinema
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Format: 5 Blu-ray-Discs (1241 Min.) , schwarz-weiß ; teilw. viragiert
Uniform Title: Pioneers of african-american cinema
Content: Among the most fascinating chapters in film history is that of the so-called race films which flourished between the 1920s and 1940s. Unlike the black cast films produced within Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were also funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of colour. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart from the Hollywood establishment, cultivating visual and narrative styles that were uniquely their own. Previously circulated in poor-quality 16mm print, these digitally restored presentations allow modern audiences to witness the legacies of Oscar Micheaux, Spencer Williams, Zora Neale Hurston and James and Eloyce Gist with fresh eyes. These pioneers of African-American cinema were truly innovative. [Cover]
Note: enthält außerdem: , Two Knights of Vandeville (1915) , Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled (1918) , 〈〈A〉〉 Reckless Rover (1918) , By Right of Birth (1921) , Regeneration (1923) , Reverend S.S. Jones Home Movies (1924-1928) , Hell-Bound Train (1930) , Verdict: Not Guilty (1933) , 〈〈The〉〉 Darktown Revue (1931) , Hot Biskits (1931) , Heaven-Bound Travelers (1935) , Stummfilm mit engl. Zwischentiteln ; engl.
Language: English
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  • 2
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    Birthright : Based on a Novel by Thomas Sigismund Stribling (2016)
    London : BFI
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    b3kat_BV048721486
    Format: 1 Blu-ray-Disc (74 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Uniform Title: Birthright
    Content: Another remake of another now-lost silent film (in this case, 1924's same-titled "Birthright"), the later version of this drama exposing the "rank corruption of the South" ends up being one of Micheaux's better sound features. "Opening up" the drama with plenty of outdoor, on location-shot footage, "Birthright" also has the advantage of likable performers in the lead roles and plenty of suspense as the drama builds to its exciting climax. Though the first two reels of this 1938 production are missing in the current restoration, the viewer is plunged right in to the drama of returning Ivy League graduate Peter Siner (Carman Newsome), who is immediately swindled out of some land due to the unscrupulous business practices of the Jim Crow-era South. Soon caught in a three-cornered romance between his best friend, the returning war veteran Tump Pack (Alex Lovejoy), and the sensuous nightclub performer Cissie Dildine (Ethel Moses), Siner is offered the position of personal secretary to elderly plenipotentiary Captain Renfew (George E. Lessey) after the death of his mother (Trixie Smith). Though much is left unstated and implied in the drama of self-sacrifice, jealousy, and budding violence that follows, Micheaux, as in his best early silent films, offers a panoramic view of a corrupt community and the roots of evil that perpetuate the sins of the past. [www.zekefilm.org]
    Note: engl.
    In: Pioneers of African-American Cinema [Folge von VM 6955], [2016]
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    Body and Soul : Based on a Novel by Oscar Micheaux (2016)
    London : bfi
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    b3kat_BV048721487
    Format: 1 Blu-ray-Disc (93 Min.) , teilw. viragiert
    Uniform Title: Body and soul
    Content: Although the 1920s brought him acclaim as a stage actor and singer, Paul Robeson still had to prove himself as a viable screen performer. Mainstream avenues were limited, however, and his first films were made on the peripheries of the film business. "Body and Soul", directed by the legendary African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, is a direct critique of the power of the cloth, casting Robeson in dual roles as a jackleg preacher and a well-meaning inventor. [www.criterion.com]
    Note: Stummfilm mit engl. Zwischentiteln
    In: Pioneers of African-American Cinema [Folge von VM 6955], [2016]
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    Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. : Based on a Short Story by William Somerset Maugham (2016)
    London : BFI
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    Format: 1 Blu-ray-Disc (61 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Uniform Title: Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.
    Content: Gertie LaRue (Francine Everett) is a nightclub entertainer from the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. She arrives on the Caribbean island of "Rinidad" to perform as the headliner in a revue at the Paradise Hotel. Gertie has earned the nickname "Dirty Gertie" for the casual nature in which she entices and then humiliates men. On the island she attracts the attention of two US military officers - a soldier and a sailor - whom she nicknames "Tight Pants" and "High Pockets," respectively. The men enjoy sharing Gertie's affections. However, Diamond Joe, the owner of the hotel, finds himself falling for Gertie and begins to shower her with gifts. Gertie also attracts the attention of two missionaries, Mr. Christian and Ezra Crumm, who keep watch on Gertie's activities. However, a former boyfriend from Harlem tracks Gertie to the island. Unable to possess her, the ex-boyfriend kills her while insisting that he loves her. [wikipedia.org]
    Note: engl.
    In: Pioneers of African-American Cinema [Folge von VM 6955], [2016]
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    Eleven P.M. (2016)
    London : bfi
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    Format: 1 Blu-ray-Disc (66 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Uniform Title: Eleven P.M.
    Content: Like the Micheaux films of the period, writer/director Richard Maurice offers a somewhat dizzying hodgepodge of melodrama and social commentary that is as undeniably powerful as it is potentially confusing. In a complex, highly-wrought narrative encompassing multiple characters, decades of conflict, and even animal-spirit mysticism, the film is framed, and literally dreamed up, by a young African-American newspaper writer (Sammie Fields) who is on the tight deadline of the title! The dramatis personae of the young writer's dreamed drama of strife in the inner city include the beleaguered "mixed race" street performer Sundaisy (writer/director Maurice), his estranged wife (Orine Johnson), their talented daughter, and the unrepentant street hood Clyde of whom Sundaisy promised the boy's dying father Stewart to help "reform". Ending in tragedy for all concerned, the film features an early depiction of the cycle of poverty, criminality, and revenge later shown in social dramas of the 1930s couched, somewhat, by the "supernatural" aspects of the story, not to mention the framing device of a "dream-vision". For its contemporary audience, though, the strange "goings-on" possibly helped justify the film’s frank portrayal of bleak social ills. [www.zekefilm.org]
    Note: Stummfilm mit engl. Zwischentiteln
    In: Pioneers of African-American Cinema [Folge von VM 6955], [2016]
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    Ten Minutes to Live (2016)
    London : bfi
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    Format: 1 Blu-ray-Disc (58 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Uniform Title: Ten minutes to live
    Content: The conversion to sound pictures, with 1931's "The Exile", was not an easy one for director Micheaux, but the director's motto of "Got to keep going!", recorded by biographer Patrick McGilligan, is undoubtedly evident in this Harlem-set sound production of 1932. Based on three (unpublished) short stories by the director, the various strands of this anthology film of "Harlem Life" - including a "renowned" director's attempt to "recruit" a female performer, the (attempted) violent revenge of a spurned woman tricked into a sham marriage, and a concluding melodrama involving an ill-starred romance between a young woman and an escaped convict - come together at the fictional "Club Lybia", where dancers, musical performers, and vaudeville acts from the real-life Cotton Club and Connie's Inn are recorded for all posterity. Yes, a discerning viewer may object to the stagy blocking, the overwritten dialogue, the charitably "amateur" performances, and, most glaringly, the director's once-audible cry of "Cut!", but what these independent, hard-scrabble productions lack in resources and technical proficiency they more than make up for in portraying a side of American life almost entirely ignored by mainstream Hollywood. [www.zekefilm.org]
    Note: engl.
    In: Pioneers of African-American Cinema [Folge von VM 6955], [2016]
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    Ten Nights in a Bar Room : Based on a Novel by Timothy Shay Arthur (2016)
    London : BFI
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    b3kat_BV048721480
    Format: 1 Blu-ray-Disc (64 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Uniform Title: Ten nights in a bar room
    Content: Featuring one of the few known film performances of legendary stage actor Charles Gilpin, who had originated the title role in Eugene O'Neill's groundbreaking 1920 play "Emperor Jones" and who would later star in 1929's "The Scar of Shame", "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" concerns the small Southern town of Cedarville and its corruption by a local speakeasy and gambling den. Gilpin plays Joe Morgan, who sells the town's gin mill to the nefarious Simon Slade (Lawrence Chenault) and quickly descends into alcoholism, resulting in tragedy both for the town and his family. Essentially a late addition to the "temperance film" popular in the early portion of the Prohibition era, the obvious nature of both the message and drama benefits from its frank portrayal of the effects of poverty and vice on a specifically African-American community. With its emphasis on social problems that mainstream Hollywood would not have dreamed of dealing with at the time, the film is at least 40 years ahead of its time; resulting in a quite remarkable apotheosis of community violence, directed squarely against the town's source of evil, that in fact prefigures the climax to Spike Lee’s "Do The Right Thing" (1989) by a full 63 years! [www.zekefilm.org]
    Note: Stummfilm mit engl. Zwischentiteln
    In: Pioneers of African-American Cinema [Folge von VM 6955], [2016]
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    The Blood of Jesus (2016)
    London : bfi
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    b3kat_BV048721493
    Format: 1 Blu-ray-Disc (57 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Uniform Title: The blood of Jesus
    Content: Spencer Williams, who had been an actor and screenwriter since 1929, was one of the most important African-American filmmakers of the 1940s, producing dramas with all-black casts that found a ready audience in all-black movie houses. Williams made his directorial debut with this low-budget drama, for which he was also the producer, screenwriter, and lead actor. Highly religious Martha (Cathryn Caviness) is married to Razz (Williams), a ne'er-do-well who has trouble supporting his family and rarely goes to church. Razz accidentally shoots Martha while tending to his hunting rifle, and her fellow parishioners pray over her as she hovers between life and death. Her spirit leaves her body, transported to the Crossroads between Heaven and Hell. There, Martha is tempted from the path of righteousness by Judas Green (Frank H. McClennan), a smooth-talking demon sent by Satan (James B. Jones) who introduces her to the pleasures of liquor and dancing and tries to talk her into a new career as a nightclub hostess, before she realizes that she has begun to travel the path of sin and degradation. Shot in Texas on a budget of only $5000, "The Blood of Jesus" uses both ethereal gospel music and down-and-dirty blues on the soundtrack is an effective metaphor for the film's battle of sacred and profane influences. [www.allmovie.com]
    Note: engl.
    In: Pioneers of African-American Cinema [Folge von VM 6955], [2016]
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    The Bronze Buckaroo (2016)
    London : bfi
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    b3kat_BV048721481
    Format: 1 Blu-ray-Disc (58 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Uniform Title: The bronze buckaroo
    Content: This surprisingly enjoyable B-Western is the middle of three films featuring Herb Jeffries as the Bronze Buckaroo. It, along with the other two - "Two-Gun Man from Harlem" (1938) and "Harlem Rides the Range" (1939), are directed by Richard Kahn. Herb Jeffries was the first black singing cowboy. His baritone, along with the singing of the "Four Tones", adds to the pleasure of watching and listening to the film. [archive.org]
    Note: engl.
    In: Pioneers of African-American Cinema [Folge von VM 6955], [2016]
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    The Exile : Based on a Novel by Oscar Micheaux (2016)
    London : BFI
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    b3kat_BV048721483
    Format: 1 Blu-ray-Disc (79 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Uniform Title: The exile
    Content: "The Exile" is the first sound feature made by an African-American and a remake of his own silent film, which was itself the first feature made at all by an African-American. The film fits well inside Micheaux's typical form of rangy melodrama - this time, perhaps literally, as it finds its protagonist, Jean Baptiste, fleeing the carnal heart of Chicago for the wide open ranges of a ranch in South Dakota. Here the film's author includes a piece of his own biography, having been a cattleman in South Dakota - an experience previously incorporated into his novel and an earlier film, both titled "The Homesteader" - and makes himself the hero. The film is framed by de facto black self-reliance, ignoring a culture that was willfully, violently suppressing black progress. Still, like other Micheaux films, "The Exile" does not shy away from depicting disrepair amongst the black population - it is as bold in its depiction of blacks murdering other blacks as it is unafraid of showing an empowered upper class of African-Americans partaking freely of the opportunities innate to our country. [www.zekefilm.org]
    Note: engl.
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