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Showing posts with label 1930s. Show all posts
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Friday, June 18, 2021

Yamekraw (1930)
























Starring:
A picturization of a jazz symphony. This short is an impressionistic expression of the moods and emotions of the Negro. A vignette of black life. The dilemma surrounding the move from country to city, leaving the security of the known for the uncertain promise of opportunity ahead.

Sunday, November 8, 2020

Gone With The Wind (1939)





























































Starring:
Presented as originally released in 1939. Includes themes and character depictions that may be offensive and problematic to contemporary audiences. Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler.