The discovery of 101-year-old film footage—the earliest known surviving feature film with a cast of black actors—in MoMA's Biograph Studio collection led to the Department of Film's multiyear research project, which culminates in the exhibition 100 Years in Post-Production: Resurrecting a Lost Landmark of Black Film History (through March 2015).
At a challenging time of segregation in the fall of 1913, a virtuoso cast of African American performers, led by famed Caribbean American entertainer Bert Williams (1874–1922), gathered in the Bronx with a mostly white crew to make a feature-length motion picture. After more than an hour of film was shot, the unreleased project was abandoned by its producers and left forgotten until today. Selections from the footage, along with research findings, archival materials, and film stills, can be seen for the first time in this gallery exhibition, and the world-premiere presentation of the assembled footage will be screened on November 8, 2014, in MoMA's annual film-preservation festival To Save and Project.
A selection of excerpts from this landmark film are available online. Experience this extraordinary discovery firsthand—plan your visit to MoMA today.
Tickets are not required for this exhibition, which is free and open to the public during Museum hours. |
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