- unitid
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{"value"=>"20620", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 285", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b11543685", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1915-1984", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1915/1984"}
{"value"=>"1967-1977", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1967/1977"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Black films collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"10 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2.96 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Black films collection documents the marketing of African Americans in American motion pictures. It consists of scripts, press sheets, press kits, movie stills, and posters."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Black films collection documents the marketing of African Americans in American motion pictures. The film careers of Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Pam Grier, Brock Peters, and Jim Brown are well represented. Production companies in the collection include Warner Brothers, Avco Embassy Pictures Corp., United Artists, American International Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Paramount, New World Pictures, National General, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, New Line Cinema, and Twentieth Century-Fox. The bulk of the collection is from the \"blaxploitation\" era of the 1970s.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Black films collection consists of scripts, press sheets, press kits, movie stills, and posters. The scope of the collection extends from the first African American talkie, <span class=\"title\">Hallelujah</span>, to stills from movies of the early 1980s. A few of the many films for which there is information are <span class=\"title\">Birth of a Nation</span>, <span class=\"title\">Coffy</span>, <span class=\"title\">Cotton Comes to Harlem</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Great White Hope</span>, <span class=\"title\">Superfly</span>, and <span class=\"title\">To Kill a Mockingbird</span>. There are twenty-eight scripts, including <span class=\"title\">Black Samson</span>, <span class=\"title\">I Passed for White</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Jesse Owens Story</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Klansman</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Roots</span>. The press kits include a synopsis of the film (not for publication), articles and ads for local newspapers, biographies of the performers, photographic stills for display, and promotional materials. Some of the images in the kits were obviously doctored to suit the sensibilities of white audiences, while some ads have directions specifying \"for Black audiences only\".</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Black films collection is arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20620#c1652011'>Scripts</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1939-1984</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20620#c1652041'>Press kits</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1915-1980</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The majority of the material in this series consists of press sheets, press books, and/or press kits, materials generated by film studios and distributors to market their movies to theaters.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Arranged into two series: I. Scripts and II. Press kits.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchased from George Minkoff, 1987.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p> Transferred to the Art and Artifacts Division: lobby cards and posters.</p> <p>Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Sule Greg Wilson, June 1987.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p> Also found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center of Research in Black Culture:</p> <p>African Americans in film collection, Sc MG 690</p> <p>Black film pressbook collection, Sc MG 527</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2021 August 23"}
- date_start
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1915
- keydate
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1915
- date_end
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1984
- date_inclusive_start
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1915
- date_inclusive_end
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1984
- date_bulk_start
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1967
- date_bulk_end
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1977
- extent_statement
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2.96 linear feet (10 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Black films collection, Sc MG 285, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}