History of Black Cinema

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The Silent Era

By: blackcinemaconnection January 4, 2020January 4, 2020

Today’s multi-billion dollar film industry has very humble beginnings. In the 1800s, inventors such as Thomas Edison and the Lumiere Brothers developed machines that projected images. From the beginning, people were excited by the flickering images which eventually grew into narratives that gave structure and dimension to the play of light and movement. This led…

By: blackcinemaconnection January 27, 2014December 27, 2019

History of Black CinemaAfrican-American, Classic Black Cinema, George Johnson, Noble Johnson, Oscar Micheaux, Race Film, Stereotypes, The Birth of A Nation, The Homesteader, The Realization of a Negro's Ambition, William Foster2 Comments

Films featuring Black performers and images have evolved from those which reflected the notions of Whites to those which fully explore African-American issues and themes.