Engineering:Midnight ramble
A midnight ramble was a segregation-era midnight showing of films for an African American audience, often in a cinema where, under Jim Crow laws they would never have been admitted at other times.[1][2] The films shown were often from among the over 500 films that were made between 1910 and 1950 in the United States with black producers, writers, actors and directors.[3] Film archivist Pearl Bowser said these films "were important to Black audiences because it provided them with images of themselves that they didn't see in the regular cinema".[4]
Oscar Micheauxs films were popular, and they starred all Black casts and were produced by Black filmmakers.[5] He was the first director to make feature length films, many of which explored subjects that were considered "taboo" at the time, like; alcoholism, crime, class conflict, interracial relationships, racism and lynchings.[4]
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Notes
- ↑ Bowser, Pearl; Cram, Bestor (dirs.) (1994). Midnight Ramble: The Story of the Black Film Industry (DVD). American Experience. PBS.
- ↑ "Film Notes for "Midnight Rambles". Cincinnati World Cinema. 2007. http://www.cincyworldcinema.org/z_71020mr.php.
- ↑ Thomas, Pamela (2011). "Black Folks Make Movies". http://blackfolksmakemovies.tripod.com.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Burlingame, Jon (October 26, 1994). "The American Experience takes a Midnight Ramble". The Times-Mail (Bedford, Indiana): p. C4.
- ↑ Devi, Debra (October 11, 2015). "Language of the Blues: Rambling". https://www.americanbluesscene.com/2015/10/language-of-the-blues-rambling/.
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