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Visions of Africa : 4 silent films / Villon Films presents.
LIBRA DVD 018 966
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Black people in motion pictures.
- Black people--Africa, Southern--Foreign public opinion.
- Black people.
- Race relations.
- History.
- South Africa--In motion pictures.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--Race relations--History.
- Southern Africa.
- Genre:
- Silent films.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Short films.
- Feature films.
- Comedy films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (51 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container: From the archives, Villon Films presents Visions of Africa
- Title on spine of container: Visions of Africa
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver, BC, Canada : Villon Films, [after 2004]
- Language Note:
- Silent films with English intertitles.
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- These four films are a representative sampling of early American movie-making and how these films viewed Africans and sub-Saharan Africa.
- Contents:
- The Zulu's heart / American Mutoscope & Biograph ; writer and director, D.W. Griffith (1908, 9 min.)
- Rastus among the Zulus / Lubin Manufacturing Company ; directors, Arthur Hotaling, Epes Winthrup Sargeant ; producer, Siegmund Lubin (1910, 5 min.)
- The kaffir's gratitude / Centaur Productions ; producer, David Horsly (1916, 16 min.)
- The sins of Rosanne [reels 3 and 4] / a Paramount Artcraft Picture ; director, Tom Forman ; screen play, Mary H. O'Connor, Cynthia Stockley (1920, 21 min.).
- Participant:
- (The Zulu's heart) Charles Inslee, Florence Lawrence, George Gebhardt.
- (The kaffir's gratitude) Fred Montague, Patricia Palmer, Jack Nelson.
- (Sins of Rosanne) Ethel Clayton, Jack Holt, Fontaine LaRue.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of three short silent motion pictures (which may be complete) produced in 1908, 1910, and 1916, and part of a silent feature motion picture produced in 1920.
- Cataloged from fragmentary opening frames, container, and information on IMDb website.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- Contains:
- Zulu's heart
- Rastus among the Zulus
- Rastus in Zululand
- Kaffir's gratitude
- Sins of Rosanne
- OCLC:
- 767721152
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