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Two Knights of Vaudeville
Pioneers of African-American Cinema: An Introduction • 24m
United States • 1915
The Ebony Film Corporation may have been a white-owned company, but African-American producer Luther Pollard used it as a means of getting black faces on the silver screen. Luther often worked in collaboration with his brother Fritz, a star athlete who later became the first African-American head coach in the NFL.