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Africa Speaks, 1930 The strangest romance ever filmed. "Thrilling all talking romance of adventure in the unexplored regions of eguatorial Africa" Produced by the Colorado African Expedition, Inc.  Paul L. Hoefler and Walter Futter.
$19.99
ANNA LUCASTA, 1958 - Excellent picture and sound. Starring - Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frederick O'Neal, Henry Scott, Rex Ingram, James Edwards, Georgia Burke, Isabelle Cooley, Rosetta Le Noire, Alvin Childress, Georgia Burke, Claire Leyea, John Proctor, Charles Swain, Isaac Jones, Eileen Harley.
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ATLANTIC CITY, 1944 - Hollywood made picture with a great Louis Armstrong and Dorothy Dandridge segment.
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BAHAMA PASSAGE, 1941 - Beautifuly photographed film with a very young maid (19 year old Dorothy Dandridge)
$10.00
BASIN  STREET REVUE, 1955 -   Lionel Hampton, Sarah Vaughan, Martha Davis, Mantan Moreland, Nipsy Russell, The Larks, Little Buck, Nat "King" Cole, Count Basie, Helen Humes, Amos Wilburn, The Three Businessmen of Rhythm, Dinah Washington, Freddy and Flo, The Clovers, Paul Williams, Jimmy Brown.
$19.99
BEALE STREET MAMA, 1946 - July Jones and Spencer Williams - A street cleaner and bad news Johnson find some stolen money, which they use to establish themselves in the good life. They aare found out and end up losing everything. Very stereotypical
$10.00
BEWARE, 1946 - Louis Jordan and His Tympany Band ( William Davis, Joshua W. Jackson, Aaron Izenhall, Carl Hogan, Jesse Simpkins, Eddie Byrd ), Frank Wilson, Emory Richardson, Valerie Black, Milton Woods, Joseph Hilliard, Tommy Hix, Charles J. Johnson, John Grant, Walter Earle, Ernest Calloway, Dimples Daniels, The "Aristo Genes" Girls Club.
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BIRTH OF A NATION, 1915 - Excellent picture quality
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BIRTH OF A RACE, 1919 -   The film intended to counteract the effects and respond to the racial allegations in BIRTH OF THE NATION. Ended up as a kind of patchwork extravaganza of Christianity and Judiaism . It took over two years to make at a cost of over $1,000,000. Ended up not  concerning Blacks at all.
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BIG FELLA, 1938 -Paul Robeson is featured in this film story of the Marseilles waterfront. Loosely based on McKay's, Banjo.
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BIG TIMERS, 1945 - Moms Mabley, Stepin Fetchit, Francine Everett, Duke Williams, Lou Swarz, Milton Woods, Dots Johnson, Walter Earl, Lucky Brown, Gertrude Saunders, Ed Hunter, Elveta Hunter, Rocky Brown, Skylight, Tarzana, The All American Girl Band.
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BLACK KING, THE 1932 - The story is about "Charcoal" Johnson, a crooked minister,who ousts a kindly old reverend from his Logan, Mississippi church and takes over. Johnson's plan is to get the church members to give him money for a "Back to Africa" movement and to proclaim himself King of the United States of Africa.Film makes fun of Marcus Garvey's "Back to Africa movement". Very stereotypical and unflattering to Negroes.
$12.99
BLACK ORPHEUS, 1959 - Starring Brenoo Melllo, Marpessa Dawn.. Camus film loosely parallels the classic legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. The tragic love story unravels against the background of carnival in Rio de Janeiro's black ghetto."
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BLOOD OF JESUS, THE 1941 - Spencer Williams, Cathryn Caviness, Juanita Riley, Heather Hardeman, Rogenia Goldthwaite, James B. Jones,Frank H. McClennan, Eddie DeBuse, Alva Fuller, R.L. Robertson and The Heavenly Choir. The story concerns the accidental shooting of Williams' wife, and the faith in Jesus that brings her back to life.
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BOARDINGHOUSE BLUES, 1948 - Jackie"Moms"Mabley, John Mason & Company, Johnny Lee Jr.,  Dusty Fletcher, Marcellus Wilson, Marie Cooke, Emery Richardson, James Cross & Harold Cromer (Stump & Stumpy), Sidney Easton, Freddie Robinson, J.Augustus Smith, Edgar Martin, John Piano, Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra, Una Mae Carlisle, Bull Moose Jackson, Berry Brothers, Lewis & White, Anistine Allen, Paul Breckenridge,   Lee Norman Trio & "Crip" Heard (one-armed and one-legged dancer.)
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BODY AND SOUL, 1924 - (silent) Oscar Micheaux's production with Paul Robeson in his first film role - also starring, Julia Theresa Russell, Mercedes Gilbert, E.G.Tatum, Percy Verwayen..
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BORDERLINE, 1929 - Paul Robeson, Eslanda Goode Robeson - Robeson plays Pete, a small town cafe worker whose wife Adah returns from an involvement with a white man. Thorne and his wife become estranged over the issue and the town blames Pete and Adah. Thorne's wife dies accidentally thereby giving the town another excuse for making Pete the scapegoat for its hatred.
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BORU, THE APE BOY
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BOY, WHAT A GIRL, 1946 - Tim Moore, Elwood Smith, Duke Williams, Al Jackson, Warren Patterson (Patterson and Jackson), Sheila Guyse, Betti Mays, Sybil Lewis, Milton Wood, Slam Stewart Trio, Deek Watson and his Brown Dots, "Big" Sid Catlett and Band, Ann Cornell, The Harlemaniacs, Basil Spears, Ram Ramires, and guest star Gene Krupa, Marva Louis.
     

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BRIGHT ROAD, 1953 - Excellent picture and sound, starring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Phillip Hepburn, Maidie Norman, Vivian Dandridge, Barbara  Ann Sanders, Robert Horton, Renee Beard.
$10.00
BROKEN STRINGS, 1940 - Clarence Muse, Sybil Lewis, William Washington, Tommiwitta More, Stymie Beard, Pete Webster, Edward Thompson, Buck Woods, Jesse Lee Brooks, Darry Jones, Earl J.Morris, Stevens Sisters, Eliot Carpenter, Curtis Mosby  and his Orchestra. A classical violinist is in an accident and injures the fingers on his left hand, making it impossible for him to play.
$10.00
BRONZE BUCKAROO, 1938 - Black western starring Herbert Jeffries, Flournoy E. Miller, Lucius Brooks, Clarence Brooks, Lee Calmers, Earl J.Morris (Drama Editor for the Pittsburgh Courier), Artie Young, Rollie Hardin,  W.C.Pumis, Spencer Williams, The Four Tones.
 
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BRONZE VENUS, 1943   (THE DUKE IS TOPS, 1938) - SEE DUKE IS TOPS.   THE BRONZE VENUS is the re-released THE DUKE IS TOPS, 1938. Originally made by Million Dollar Productions.
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BURLESQUE IN HARLEM, 1955 - Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham, George Wiltshire, Vivian Harris, Dick Barrow, Jo Jo Adams, Mabel Hunter, Gertrude Baby Banks, Luella Owens, Princess Dorsey, Gloria Howard, Slip and Slide, Tarza Young, Betty Taylor Taylorettes, Olive Sayles, Maria Rout, Adella Gross, Ezella Lester, Marion L. Greene, Dorothy McCarty, Fannie Thornton, Griffen Trixie Terry, Rose Marie Foster, Gwendolyn Shaklett.
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CABIN IN THE SKY, 1943 - A Musical Religious Fantasy is the frame for the story of Little Joe (Eddie Anderson) and Petunia (Ethel Waters). Little Joe is a "backslider" and a sweepstakes ticket and Georgia Brown (Lena Horne)  put his soul in jeopardy. In heaven, a battle for it goes on between Lucifer, Jr. and a General of the Lord.
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CARMEN JONES, 1954 - Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Olga James, Joe Adams, Roy Glenn, Diahann Carroll, Brock Peters, Alvin Ailey, Nick Stewart.
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CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK, 1930 - The only Amos and Andy film available stars the team of Gosden and Correll (white actors in burnt cork) in the roles they orginated for radio.  A haunted house , a wild taxi ride through the streets of New York, and a happy ending  for two young lovers are ingredients for this black comedy set in Harlem and an upper class suburb."
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CHLOE, 1935 - An early film about race, passing and voodoo. The story of a young lady named Chloe, who has doubts about being black.
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DARK MANHATTAN, 1937 - The story is about a lad who rises to control of the policy racket in Harlem, meets a sweet and clean nightclub singer and falls in love with her. Before they can get married, a rival gang tries to muscle into the numbers racket and, at the end, the lad gets shotgunned and dies in the arms of his girl.
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DECKS RAN RED, THE 1958 - Starring Dorothy Dandridge, Canada Lee, Broderick Crawford and Stuart Whitman in this powerful suspense drama with murder and mutiny.
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DEVIL'S DAUGHTER, THE 1939 - Starring,  Nina Mae McKinney, Jack Carter, Ida James, Hamtree Harrington, Willa Mae Lane, Emmett "Baba" Wallace.