Some of the earliest movies by African-American filmmakers from the 1910s through 1940s languished in film archives over the years on poor-quality film prints. Now some have been digitally restored.

Released in 1915, this film is widely noted for its influence on early American filmmaking techniques, particularly its use of cross-cutting, large-scale production, and narrative structure.

Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941 For all the impact that DVDs have had on expanding viewers' knowledge of films and filmmaking, few discs have had the potential to alter ...

Per the Times, some early posters for more obscure films used racist language, like “all-star colored casts” and “entertainers from the levees and cotton fields,” to advertise offerings.

The film historian Pearl Bowser in 2010. She studied the Black filmmakers of the early 20th century, who she said “were telling stories that were not being shown on the screen.” Astrid ...

In the early 1900s, rapt audiences sat in darkened theaters, mesmerized by the flickering dyed or tinted images projected onto a screen. The films had no sound track; movies were silent in those ...