Race film
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The race film or race movie was a genre of film produced in the United States between about 1915 and the early 1950s, consisting of films produced for black audiences, and featuring black casts. Appro
The Homesteader (1919) by film pioneer Oscar Micheaux emphasized its black cast.
The Green Eyed Monster, an all black romantic adventure by the Norman Film Manufacturing Company with an elaborate and expensive train wreck.
Lobby card for The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921)
Anna May Wong
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Wong Liu Tsong, known professionally as Anna May Wong, was an American actress, considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain inte
Race film
…period aimed at other minority audiences. For instance, the 1926 film Silk Bouquet (also known as The Dragon Horse) starred the Asian-American actress Anna May Wong and was marketed to Chinese-American audiences. African Americans produced films for black audiences as early as 1905, but most race films were produced…
Wong in 1935
Anna May Wong seated in her mother's lap, c. 1905
This is a duplicate copy of the Certificate of Identity issued to actress Anna May Wong.
Wong (holding child) with Beatrice Bentley in The Toll of the Sea (1922)