Cakewalk
submitted by jimmyandjune
on 05/30/15
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Cakewalk! Incredible dance footage in earliest known surviving feature film with black cast Film historians were amazed when footage and rushes from ‘Bert Williams Lime Kiln Club Field Day Project,’ a century-old feature with a black cast, emerged from a trove of negatives. Made in 1913, never finished, and never released, the pioneering interracial project was fascinating for its depictions ranging from blackface to romantic liaisons of black couples, taboo in film at the time. But no production information survived.
