A Trip to Tuskegee
| A Trip to Tuskegee | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | George Broome |
Release date | 1909 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Trip to Tuskegee is a 1909 film made to promote the Tuskegee Institute.[1][2][3][4] The film depicted the transformative positive influence of a Hampton education.[3]
Filmmaker George Broome helmed the project. The film was shown at theaters and churches to African American audiences. Segregation was in force. It is one of the earliest African American film projects. The film was followed by A Day At Tuskegee in 1913.[5]
The film, or a version of it, was still distributed as of 1922. This was an unusually long period compared to comparable films.[5]: 18
Production company[edit]
Anderson-Watkins Film Company was an American film company. It produced a 1913 film for the Tuskegee Institute.[6]
The film company was a partnership between Louis B. Anderson and William F. Watkins.
References[edit]
- ^ PhD, Allyson Nadia Field (November 16, 2009). "John Henry Goes to Carnegie Hall: Motion Picture Production at Southern Black Agricultural and Industrial Institutes (1909–13)". Journal of Popular Film and Television. 37 (3): 106–115. doi:10.1080/01956050903218075. S2CID 143895471.
- ^ "Silent No More". UCLA Magazine.
- ^ a b Goldman, Tanya (14 September 2016). "Constructing An African-American Film History In the Absence of Films: Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity, by Allyson Nadia Field – Senses of Cinema".
- ^ College, UCLA (31 January 2017). "Digital humanities students shine a light on the history of African American filmmakers – UCLA College".
- ^ a b Klotman, Phyllis Rauch; Cutler, Janet K. (1999). Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253213479.
- ^ Field, Allyson Nadia (May 22, 2015). Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822375555 – via Google Books.