You’ll recall just about a year ago when we alerted you to a fundraising campaign to support an ambitious restoration of early works of black cinema in the USA called "Pioneers of African American Cinema" – an effort that would showcase the works of such influential figures as Oscar Micheaux, Spencer Williams, Zora Neale Hurston, James and Eloyce Gist, and others, in a digitally-restored package of films that includes 8 feature films, several shorts, fragments of "lost" films, and rare documentary footage.
Context would be provided by videotaped interviews with film historians, performing artists, archivists, and filmmakers, who will discuss the…
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