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Afro promo / curated by Jenni Olson & Karl Knapper.
LIBRA DVD 022 465
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American motion picture actors and actresses.
- African American actors.
- Advertising--Motion pictures--United States.
- Advertising.
- Film trailers--United States.
- Film trailers.
- Advertising--Motion pictures.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Film trailers.
- Compilation films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Standard format.
- Other Title:
- Subtitle from disc label: Black cinema trailers, 1946-76
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco, CA] : Other Cinema, [2006]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 0 [i.e.: all regions].
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- Summary:
- A collection of 31 trailers for films starring, directed by, and/or marketed to African Americans from the years 1952-1976.
- Contents:
- Play all: The Harlem Globetrotters (1952)
- St. Louis blues (1958)
- Edge of the city (1957)
- Defiant ones (1958)
- A raisin in the sun (1961)
- A patch of blue (1965)
- "They call me Mister Tibbs!" (1970)
- Cool breeze (1972)
- The last safari (1967)
- Zulu (1964)
- Soul to soul (1971)
- "Sounder" (1972)
- The learning tree (1969)
- Putney Swope (1969)
- Slaves (1969)
- Mandingo (1975)
- Boss nigger (1974)
- Blacula (1972)
- Cleopatra Jones (1973)
- Foxy Brown (1974)
- Black mama/white mama (1973)
- Black girl (1972)
- Lady sings the blues (1972)
- Sparkle (1975)
- The great white hope (1970)
- The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
- The greatest (1976)
- Car wash (1976)
- Norman
- is that you? (1976)
- Cooley High (1975)
- A piece of the action (1976).
- Categories: Blaxploitation
- History
- Comedy
- Music
- Race relations
- Poitier
- Black authors
- Sports.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 2006.
- Original release dates from closing credits.
- Container insert includes an essay by Terri Francis ("The power of a fragment for other cinema").
- Special features: 2 new experimental films (Roger Beebe's "Famous Irish Americans", 2003, col., 8 min. & Christopher Harris' "Reckless eyeballing", 2004, b&w, 14 min.).
- Contains:
- Power of a fragment for other cinema
- Famous Irish Americans
- Reckless eyeballing
- ISBN:
- 0976523949
- 9780976523949
- OCLC:
- 62881059
- Publisher Number:
- 185713000124
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