Last fall there was huge excitement among film historians, black film historians, black historians and basically just anyone interested in the history of movies.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York announced that they had found in their Biograph Studio silent film collection what is believed to the oldest known surviving black film ever made “Lime Kiln Club Field Day”.
Shot in Bronx in 1913, the film, which was based on a collection of stories known as “Brother Gardener’s Lime Kiln Club” was left unfinished by the producers of the film and was literally forgotten until it was discovered practically by accident when an assistant curator and a preservation officer found…
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