From Library Journal
This is an extremely important addition to the literature on black film from the 1930s through the 1950s, largely because it offers primary documentation on more than a dozen newly discovered films (features and shorts) heretofore considered lost or existing only in fragmentary condition. Although the body of scholarship on black cinema has grown significantly in the last 15 years, research on the films made during the great period of black independent filmmaking (the Teens through the mid-Fifties) was forestalled due to difficulty in procuring the films. The book also contains brief assessments by black film artists on the importance of this historical period. An extensive filmography of black independent films from 1910 to 1957 is also very valuable. This study should rekindle an investigation of this period in black history, and is a necessary acquisition for any collection which addresses cinema.
- Robert Rayher, Sch. of the Art Inst. of Chicago
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Robert Rayher, Sch. of the Art Inst. of Chicago
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
