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Early Black Performers #1- A still from the 1894 Edison Kinetoscope Pickaninnies (23k jpeg).
Early Black Performers #2- Noble Johnson, from The Ten Commandments (57k jpeg).
Early Black Performers #3- Stepin Fetchit, from In Old Kentucky (52k jpeg).
Early Black Performers #4- A still from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) (62k jpeg).
Early Black Performers #5- A still from Hallelujah (49k jpeg).
Early Black Performers #6- Another still from Hallelujah (66k jpeg).
Early Black Performers #7- Noble Johnson, from Moby Dick (49k jpeg).
Early Black Performers #8- Noble Johnson, from Murders in the Rue Morgue (46k jpeg).
Early Black Performers #9- Noble Johnson, from The Most Dangerous Game (43k jpeg).
Early Black Performers #10- Madame Sul-Te-Wan, from Black Moon (38k jpeg).
Early Black Performers #11- Madame Sul-Te-Wan, from Maid of Salem (49k jpeg).
Early Black Performers #12- George Godfrey, from Old Ironsides (29k jpeg).
Early Black Performers #13- A still from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914) (45k jpeg).
Early Black Performers #14- Farina, with Hal Roach's Rascals, from Official Officers (1925) (32k jpeg).
The image of Black Americans on film
goes back to Thomas A. Edison's experiments with the new medium.
This scene is from a 1894 Kinetoscope called Pickaninnies,
"a scene representing Southern plantation life before the Civil War."
To Edison's credit, he used genuine Black performers
instead of Caucasians in blackface.
A tower of strength.
Noble Johnson, as "The Bronze Man;" from Cecil B. DeMille's biblical epic,
The Ten Commandments (Famous Players-Lasky, 1923). |
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