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Verdict Not Guilty
Pioneers of African-American Cinema • 8m 41s
Eloyce Gist, James Gist • United States • 1933
A surreal filmed pageant.
In this surreal filmed pageant—presided over by a horrific skull-faced “Jailer” in a nun’s habit—a woman faces the throne of judgment and must account her iniquities to earn God’s mercy.
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Zora Neale Hurston's Fieldwork Footage
Zora Neale Hurston • United States • 1928
A glimpse of African-American life at a time few documented it.
Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographic films, part of her effort to collect folklore of black communities in the rural south, provide a rare glimpse of African-American life in central and south...
