Black History - Black Faces on the Silver Screen

2716.0104
WCVB Collection
This item may be available for reuse, please contact Northeast Historic Film for more information
January 24 1986
Master; Black History - Black Faces on the Silver Screen Black History X3960 Black Faces on the Silver Screen Rec. 1/24/86
Title: ‘Black Faces on the Silver Screen’. LeVar Burton hosts an episode about the history of Black cinema. Highlights prominent films, actors and directors, including ‘Emperor Jones’, ‘Imitation of Life’, ‘Shaft’, Oscar Micheaux, Bill Robinson, Lena Horne, Hattie McDaniels, and Sidney Poitier. Includes interviews with writer and Black Film Historian Donald Bogel, Black Film Historian Dr. Henry T. Sampson, Mayme Clayton of the Western States Black Research Center, nephew of Hattie McDaniels Ed Goff, Northeastern University Assistant Professor of Philosophy Tom Lott, actor Lorenzo Tucker, actor and producer Kevin Hooks, President of the Hollywood NAACP Willis Edwards, and film producer Topper Carew.
Credits: Produced by Karl Nurse; Written by Steve Hemmingway; Editor: Geoffrey Sullivan; Post Production Editors: George Ellard, Doug DeVitt; Graphics: Marcel Watkins; Special Thanks to: Willie Bell, Ed Goff, Tom Lott, Clyde Taylor, Lorenzo Tucker; Production Intern: Chet Brewster; Film Clips Courtesy of: Richard Goldman, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, MGM Studios, Warner Brothers Inc. New Century Productions, Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox; V.P. for Community Programming: Donna Latson Gittens

2 Copies

Loading...