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Zonk / African Film Productions Ltd. presents ; written and produced for African Film Productions by Ike Brooks Baruch ; directed by Hyman Kirstein.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 1764
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feature films.
- Black people--South Africa--Music.
- Black people.
- Black people--South Africa--Drama.
- Music--South Africa--20th century.
- Music.
- African Americans--Music--Influence.
- African Americans.
- Minstrel shows--United States--Influence.
- Minstrel shows.
- Black people in motion pictures.
- African Americans--Music.
- South Africa--Drama.
- South Africa.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Music.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Vancouver, B.C.] : Villon Films, [between 1900 and 1999?]
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- In the early 1950's, at the beginning of apartheid with its racial segregation and classification, this film was produced by Africans with an all Black African cast. It is a series of musical numbers, relying heavily on American Hollywood stereotypes of the black entertainer. The music ranges from 'Dixie' presentations to Harlem dance-hall, to Broadway top-hat and tie. In imitation of Al Jolson from the American minstrel tradition, one performance presents a black man imitating a white man in blackface.
- Participant:
- Sylvester Phahlane, Daniel Lekoape, Fiver Kelly, Richard Majola, Hessie Kerry, Timothy Zwane, Moffat Tlale, Laura Gabashane, Geoffrey Tsebe.
- Credits:
- Photography, Dave Millen ; music, Charles Berman ; music performed by the Manhattan Stars and Zonk Band led by Samuel Maile.
- Notes:
- Original production: c1950.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- OCLC:
- 133771486
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