Documentary \"How African Americans change film industry.\"
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the contributions African Americans have made in the film industry is rarely recognized by Hollywood and other entertainment venues. My podcast Focus on Blackness, Black Face and Blaxploitation. As an African American, we were here from the birth of movies. So why is it hard to accept my vision? They try so hard to look like me. It's obvious they like how I look on camera, but they don't understand. I love the movies and just want to be represented. William Foster was a vaudeville performer turned booking agent. He started the first black film company in 1910. Called the Foster Photo Play Film Company in the 19 twenties, Noble Johnson was a very busy character actor, appearing in such top notch films as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in 1921 with Rudolph Valentino, Cecil B. De Mille's original The 10 Commandments in 1923 starting the Lincoln Motion Picture Company in 1916 producing his first picture called The Realization of a *****'s Ambition. Oscar Micheaux, novelist and filmmaker, writing successful books as the homesteader and producing it as his first movie. So also started the most so film and book company in 1918. Although Black film company were putting out successful movies, directors like D. W. Griffith continue to stereotype African Americans with his hateful propaganda. According Toa film history, Griffith brought his May Cora a ticket to see Birth of a Nation, and when she returned from viewing the movie, she acts. Griffin. How can you treat my people that way? I named my son after you and I'm going to change his name. And on top of everything else she quit. The going mo mentum of the civil rights movement brought more changes in Hollywood as the 19 fifties saw the advent of large productions featuring all black casts and the beginnings of a shift in the ways in which black and white actors shared screen time various films in the 19 sixties. So a continuation of the work that was accomplished in the late 19 fifties with greater push back against the racial status, quote, greater cast integration and greater encouragement toe better understand the meanings of race in the US And if there was one genre that will give the US a lesson on race, it was blaxploitation movies in the 19 seventies in Double A CPI and core. They're the ones who created this terminology, black exploitation that has to be clear on the record. It came from them. It didn't come from the white press who was being exploited. All the black actors were getting paid. They had a job. They were going to work. The audience wasn't being exploited. They were getting the seat things on the screen they long for in the 19 seventies, the variety of opportunities open toe African American actors that rectors writers and producers into you to expand. But five, the late seventies blaxploitation era had.