Thats Black Entertainment
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Director William Greaves Screenplay G. William Jones Writer G. William Jones | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Documentary, History, Music Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 1989 Producers Fred T. Kuehnert, G. William Jones Cast William Greaves , Louis Armstrong , Sammy Davis - Jr , Nat King Cole , Cab Calloway Similar movies Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (1991), Beneath Loch Ness (2002), The Fallen Ones (2005), Jaime (1974), Terror in the Wax Museum (1973) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
That's Black Entertainment is a 1989 documentary film starring African-American performers and featuring clips from black films from 1929-1957.
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Film clips included
Many entertainers, along with their musical numbers, and the film they starred in, include:
Not only musical clips were shown, but dramatic clips as well, like Murder in Harlem (1935), Juke Joint (1947), Four Shall Die (1940), and Souls of Sin (1949).
The film also includes clips from white films stereotyping blacks, including D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, and a blackfaced Bing Crosby in Crooner's Holiday (1932).
Celebrity appearances
References
That's Black Entertainment Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
Thats Black Entertainment IMDb