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African American film making is essential to American culture, and movie posters play an important role as part art and visual design, part promotional tool. Now Showing celebrates the significance of posters and the museum’s sizable collection by offering a visual history of more than seven decades of African Americans in cinema. The exhibition showcases works by pioneering filmmakers, independent directors, and some of Hollywood’s biggest stars to examine the intersection of race, gender, and the role of film in society.​
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The Flying Ace, 1926
Richard E. Norman (1891–1960), director
Norman Film Manufacturing Company
From A Cinema Apart: African American Film Memorabilia (Larry Richards Collection)
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To Sir, with Love, 1967
James Clavell (1921–1994), director
Columbia Pictures Industries Inc.
Gift of Dow B. Ellis
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Dark Manhattan, 1937
Harry Fraser (1889–1974), director
Ralph Cooper (1908–1992), director (uncredited)
Sack Amusement Enterprises
From the Nieman Film Collection
Gift of Randall and Sam Nieman
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Harlem on the Prairie, 1937
Sam Newfield (1899–1964), director
Toddy Pictures Company
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Herbert Jeffrey (1913–2014), also known as Herb Jeffries, or “The Sepia Singing Cowboy,” had a thriving career as a singer and actor, starring in several all-black cast Westerns during the 1930s.
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Claudine, 1974
John Berry (1917–1999), director
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
From the DC Public Library Film Collection
© 1974 Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
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Pinky, 1949
Elia Kazan (1909–2003), director
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
From A Cinema Apart: African American Film Memorabilia (Larry Richards Collection)
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