African American Black History Culture Living Classic 1930s to 1960s Films DVD

Description: Please read & note: This is a Rights holding DVD created & produced by me and is not factory made or sealed. I strive to produce the best DVD's possible from the sometimes VERY old Public Domain material. Films that are public domain are unpreserved and not professionally remastered. I remaster all of my films myself to the best possible quality achievable. My DVDs are not the quality of todays Modern DVDs or Bluray discs. If you are looking for this kind of quality then these discs are not for you. Please note this when purchasing, but also know that all of the films are very watchable. All pictures are actual screen captures from the DVDs. To keep my prices as low as possible all my DVDs are delivered in plain paper DVD sleeves and the DVDs title will be labeled on the back of the DVD envelope. (See picture) All of my DVD's come with a menu for easy film selection. Total runtime of the DVD is 128 minutes. Item specifics are:Film 1: New Girl in the Office (1960) B&W Runtime 30 minutesPretty good docudrama for it's day about an office just about to hire it's first black woman for a secretary, and the ramifications it has in the office.Release Date: 1960Entered the Public Domain: 1989 Film 2: Palmour Street (1957) B&W Runtime 23 minutesEveryday aspects of mental health in an African American community in Gainesville, Georgia.Shots from the film:Dad shows son his flexing muscles. Family sits on porch. Sister cradles infant in her arms.Public health clinic. Child behaving badly. Mother bathes infant in tub. Six-year old child is scared of dog barking. Child learns to pet dog. child plays by himself jumping happily on couch. child and mother shell peas together.Mother puts children to bed. Children dance on porch.Mother reprimands her teenage son at the dinner table, hurting his feelings badly.Children crawl over mother happily. Woman is cooking up her laundry in a large metal tub on the stove. She stirs it with a stick.girl sets table for family dinner. Parents fight; child react with fear and upset. Boy sucks his thumb. Baby cries.Father plays with his baby son; Kids take shoes off dad.little girl goes off to school. Child tries to go with mother when she goes at work.Children play patty-cake and sing rhymes. Child hides under bed from his father. Then he cries.going to hospital; father is hurt badly. Sadness."Vernon [being given a bath and smiling about it] is only 9-months old. But he knows he is safe, he is warm and his mother loves him. And that's the best kind of a beginning any baby can have."Mean old aunt:"Get off this porch! You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Dancing for the devil like that. You better get off this porch." "My mom don't care if we dance.""That boy of mine got himself into trouble again. Had me down to the jailhouse yesterday. Me a-begging the police to let him go. I was ashamed to death.""Don't tell me you couldn't help losing your job. Because I know better. It's you and that sassy tongue of yours. ""Lord am I tired. Ain't you got my dinner done yet? Don't you come here barking at me. I had enough worry all day. Who do you think you're talking to that way? I lean over that stuff all day, sweating my guts out and all I get is blah, blah, blah. . . .Clothes need washing; baby crying every two minutes and all you want to do is eat. Shut up! I'll bust you in the mouth.""Spoiling one child. Being hard on the rest. When this goes on week after week Mother has problems with them all. "Release Date: 1957Entered the Public Domain: 1986 Film 3: We Work Again (1937) B&W Runtime 11 minutesAmazing glimpse of African-American life during the Great Depression.This film acknowledges the fact that African-Americans were disproportionately unemployed. There are scenes of forward-looking programs of housing renovation and public works in Harlem, as well as pre-school and adult education.Release Date: 1937Entered the Public Domain: 1966 Film 4: Teddy (1971) Faded COLOR Runtime 16 MinutesPresents the experiences of a Black teenager, relating his views of the system, showing his relationship with the church, school, society, drugs and community self-help programs. Tells of war, revolution, Watts, the Black Panthers and the police. Concludes with the idea of being one's self.Release Date: 1971Entered the Public Domain: 2000 Film 5: Negro Colleges in Wartime (1944) B&W Runtime 8 minutesEducation and training of African Americans as part of the World War II effort.Release Date: 1944Entered the Public Domain: 1973 Film 6: Plantation System in Southern Life (1950) B&W Runtime 10 minutesEurocentric view of the plantation system and its effect on Southern U.S. culture.Release Date: 1950Entered the Public Domain: 1979 Film 7: Farmer Henry Browne (1942) B&W Runtime 10 minutesDaily life of a patriotic African American farmer in Georgia during World War II.Release Date: 1942Entered the Public Domain: 1971 Film 8: Integration Report (1942) B&W Runtime 20 minutesA documentary showing sit-ins, marches, boycotts and rallies in 1959 and 1960. Includes such events as the first mass marches in Montgomery, Alabama, reactions against police brutality in Brooklyn and protests against the prejudiced treatment of African Americans in court.Release Date: 1942Entered the Public Domain: 1971 I claim ownership and rights to this media.All the films on this DVD have been researched and are copyright free or the copyrights have expired due to non renewal.

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