In Black And White

Until the rise of the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s black and white audiences in America had to use separate movie theatres In 1916 a new industry had begun with the first all coloured film made as a protest against D W Griffiths Birth of a Nation Director Russ Karel s documentary charts the development of the independent AfricanAmerican cinema movement through the eyes of the segregated audiences and tells of the fate of those opposing that dehumanising social order including Paul Robeson and Josephine Baker during the McCarthy era