POSTERS OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.

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  • Source:
    American Heritage. Aug/Sep2003, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p12. 1/3p. 1 Color Photograph.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      AFRICAN American artists; MOTION picture industry; AMERICAN film posters; MUSEUMS
    • Subject Terms:
      LOS Angeles (Calif.); CALIFORNIAReport Available; UNITED StatesReport Available
    • Abstract:
      For the first 50 years of the American film industry, if any black performers appeared in movies, they were usually confined to a narrow range of small parts. The same went for those who worked behind the scenes. The exceptions were so-called race movies, aimed at African-American audiences. Many of these films have been lost, but their promotional posters survive, as do those from later days, when black performers began moving into the main-stream. A century of these fascinating historic documents has been collected in Close Up in Black: African American Film Posters, a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition that will open at the California African American Museum, in Los Angeles, on August 2 and tour the country for the next two years.