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It was produced by Million Dollar Productions, which created race films with African-American casts for distribution to "colored only" theaters during the years of segregation. [2] [3] The Library of Congress has a movie poster promoting Life Goes On that features inset images of Laurence Criner and Louise Beavers. [4]
Many race films were produced by white-owned film companies outside the Hollywood-centered American film industry, such as Million Dollar Productions in the 1930s and Toddy Pictures in the 1940s. One of the earliest surviving examples of a black cast film aimed at a black audience is A Fool and His Money (1912) , directed by French emigree ...
In the early days of cinema, African-American roles were scarce and often filled with stereotypes. Pioneers like Oscar Micheaux, one of the first significant African-American filmmakers, countered these narratives with films like The Homesteader (1919) and Body and Soul (1925), which were part of the "race film" genre and tackled issues such as racial violence, economic oppression, and ...
Early African American Film: Reconstructing the History of Silent Race Films, 1909–1930: A database on early African-American silent race films. Rotten Tomatoes on "Race Films: The Black Film Industry that Told Black Stories In Cinema's Earliest Days" Internet Archive version of William D. Alexander's 1949 race film Souls of Sin
Racism in early American film is the negative depiction of racial groups, racial stereotypes, and racist ideals in classical Hollywood cinema from the 1910s to the 1960s. [ 1 ] From its inception, Hollywood has largely been dominated by white male filmmakers and producers, catering to a predominantly white audience. [ 2 ]
In 2013, five African-American films were released (12 Years a Slave, Fruitvale Station, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Best Man Holiday and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom). [citation needed] The release of such films had a broader impact on the film industry with movie attendance by African Americans growing by thirteen percent compared to 2012. [12]
Swing!, which is a public domain title, has been frequently shown in film festivals and retrospective series celebrating the creative output of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneering African-American filmmaker, [5] and it has also been broadcast on U.S. television in programming devoted to the history of African-American cinema. [6]
1930: Borderline: Kenneth Macpherson: An African-American couple played by Paul and Eslanda Robeson stay at a hotel in Europe with group of hedonists. An interracial love triangle shocks the townsfolk. 1915: The Birth of a Nation: D. W. Griffith: The American Civil War and Reconstruction era with the Ku Klux Klan saving the white nation from ...