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Author Jones, G. William (George William), 1931-

Title Black cinema treasures : lost and found / G. William Jones ; foreword by Ossie Davis
Published Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations
Contents Foreword / by Ossie Davis -- Introduction: King Tut's Warehouse: Finding the Films -- The Non-White World of All-Black Cinema -- Some Pioneer Black Filmmakers: Oscar Micheaux: the Dean of Black Filmmakers -- Spencer Williams -- William Alexander -- George Randol -- The Tyler, Texas, Black Film Collection: The Blood of Jesus -- Dirty Gertie from Harlem, U.S.A. -- The Girl in Room 20 -- Juke Joint -- Marching On -- Midnight Shadow -- Miracle in Harlem -- Murder in Harlem (Lem Hawkins' Confession) -- Souls of Sin -- By-Line Newsreels (Four Episodes) -- Other Short Films in the Collection: Broken Earth -- Boogie Woogie Blues -- Daughters of the Isle of Jamaica -- Harlem Hot-Shots -- Junior Jeeps -- Vanities -- Comments from Some of Today's Black Filmmakers: How the Films Were Produced, Distributed, Exhibited -- and What Became of the System -- What Black Independent Films Meant to the Black Community -- Working With Spencer Williams -- A Final Comment: "We Could Have Been Friends."
Bibliography Filmography: pages 191-232
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index
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Subject Tyler, Texas, Black Film Collection -- Catalogs
Southern Methodist University. Southwest Film/Video Archives -- Catalogs
SUBJECT Southern Methodist University. Southwest Film/Video Archives fast
Tyler, Texas, Black Film Collection fast
Subject African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in motion pictures -- Catalogs
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African Americans in the motion picture industry -- United States
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
African Americans in motion pictures
African Americans in the motion picture industry
Films.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Film.
United States
Genre/Form Catalogs
Form Electronic book
LC no. 91010882
ISBN 0585312435
9780585312439