1968AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE
The movie, filmed just after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., follows Harlem’s New Lafayette Theatre members as they rehearse for their upcoming season and run politically radical workshops in the community.
Founded by actor-director Robert Macbeth, the New Lafayette Theatre was a significant institution within the Black Power Movement. Ed Bullins, the theatre’s playwright-in-residence was the Black Panther’s Minister of Culture. In addition to recording the theatre’s workshops, the movie contains street interviews with Harlem’s residents, and scenes from the Black Panther fundraising event held at Fillmore East for Eldridge Cleaver. This copy is from the only surviving english language print of the film
Founded by actor-director Robert Macbeth, the New Lafayette Theatre was a significant institution within the Black Power Movement. Ed Bullins, the theatre’s playwright-in-residence was the Black Panther’s Minister of Culture. In addition to recording the theatre’s workshops, the movie contains street interviews with Harlem’s residents, and scenes from the Black Panther fundraising event held at Fillmore East for Eldridge Cleaver. This copy is from the only surviving english language print of the film
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members of Harlem theater rehearse in loft man jumps up and down screaming hysterically and falls to the ground - theater members sing and clap together to gospel recording., actor play fights with himself
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Harlem Theater director talks about their troupes approach to acting " subversive" goal -
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| 01:02:17 116.82 |
shots of Harlem New York Spring 1968 the day after the murder of Reverend Martin Luther King
Fire Trucks on harlem streets, tenement building on fire - protests in harlem, firemen leave tenement building in harlem, onlookers, black harlem residence on the streets watching the fire, hanging out on Harlem Streets, , Harlem street scenes 1968 |
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Radical Harlem theater actors rehearse in loft. Black theater company, load, aggressive movement and screaming as they rehearse, actors jump around subversive theater - actors improvisation :" women take leave of their terrorist group to commit a political assassination"
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| 01:06:22 362.03 |
Harlem theater troupe rehearses, subversive, radical politicized Black Panther era in Harlem
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| 01:08:47 507.01 |
Harlem Theater actors rehearse a scene actress shouts and recites radicalized version of the song " that old Black Magic " and "Witchcraft". angry radicalized interpretation
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| 01:13:32 791.29 |
Harlem theater actors rehearse a scene in their loft
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| 01:14:14 833.35 |
Interview with Harlem Theater director Robert MacBeth
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| 01:17:37 1037.2 |
MacBeth rehearses his actors . perform scene
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| 01:23:49 1408.47 |
Method acting rehearsal CH black female actress rehearsing. Director MacBeth talks with actors in rehearsal , training session. radical Harlem black actors 1968
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| 01:31:01 1840.95 |
White advertising men visits Harlem Theater company = talks about their reviews with director MacBeth
Brodway direcors gives MacBeth "advice" |
| 01:32:35 1934.93 |
black man in sunglasses watches television Theater director Robert MacBeth
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| 01:32:56 1955.41 |
vwere style camera follows Robert MacBeth through building and into his dressing room where he is made up for performance Bob MacBether and members of Harlem Theater on Sonny Fox interview tv show. - MacBether watches broadcast in his dressing room
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| 01:36:24 2163.81 |
children oc actors black grade school 1968, parents pick up children, busy school hallway
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| 01:37:00 2199.95 |
Black children given method acting lessons. cu little boy who receipts Mary Had A Little Lamb
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| 01:38:17 2277.04 |
young actors theme for improvisation THEME : police prisoners arrested after race riot - one sentenced to death - Their last talk
Black actors improvise the scene |
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black actors rehearse a love scene - caress each others hands Acting class led by Robert MacBeth Harlem Theater 1968
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| 01:45:46 2725.93 |
ms group of police officers on street, Robert MacBeth and child look out window at police on street
ms police gather on Harlem street , cut to rehersal loft, actors, children |
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ws police siren and flashing light of police car on Harlem street , fire truck in Harlem street, fire inspector on roof of Harlem tenement , slum buildings in Harlem, asks garbage to be removed from roof, fire inspector in Harlem tenement
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ms pan of burned wreckage of interior of Harlem Theater
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| 01:49:29 2948.85 |
man looks out window at Harlem street and fire sirens as fire truck passes
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| 01:50:03 2982.91 |
fire department fire inspector walks through Harlem tenement street scene with Fireman on Harlem Ghetto street
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| 01:50:55 3035.21 |
fire trucks on City street night Ed Bullins comments, firetruck on Harlem streets , police infront of brownstone in Harlem, black Ghetto 1968 street screens
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| 01:51:55 3094.8 |
Harlem street, black harlem residents on Harlem street, daytime , Ghetto street scenes, police car lights flashing
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| 01:53:04 3163.4 |
large crowd on Harlem street listen to live jazz, public street concert in Harlem Ghetto , cu teens sit on stoop of brownstone in Harlem , listen to love jazz on street
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| 01:53:04 3163.4 |
block party on Harlem Street, 1968, neighborhood get together Harlem Ghetto Black crowds African American neighborhood street scenes
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| 01:53:51 3210.75 |
CU elderly black lady dances on street
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radical speaker on street speaks to Harlem crowd
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| 01:55:24 3303.4 |
young black couple dancing on Harlem Street, listening to pop music and dancing in front of RECORD STORe in Harlem speakers playing record on street , young lady dances on street in front of record store to Afro-Cuban jazz record. "Johnny's Records" shop in Harlem
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| 01:56:36 3375.85 |
New York Park's Commissioner Press conference Harlem, 1968 -planning of Festival " to amuse the ghetto inhabitants PLANNING OF THE SUMMER OF SOUL "Harlem Festival"
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| 01:56:40 3379.38 |
CU belly of black go-go girl dancing in nightclub
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| 01:57:10 3410.08 |
CU talking head of New York Parks Commissioner discussing first Harlem Festival
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| 01:57:34 3433.5 |
scenes shot, summer of 1968 of the first HARLEM FESTIVAL ( Summer of Soul )
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| 01:58:06 3465.49 |
black go-go dancer on harlem nightclub stage
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| 01:58:31 3490.79 |
Harlem resident interviewed on street
" something wrong with everything" Harlem street crowded with people, neighborhood shots Man talks about ghetto life and the plight of poor black people |
| 01:59:29 3548.67 |
MS storefront : OUR THEATER 1 West 125th Street Harlem Theater group
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| 02:00:08 3587.23 |
Musicians Junior Mance John Williams, Ralph dorsey and Jim Barton : HOW DO YOU DO drama - filmed Harlem Theater scene JAZZ MUSICIANS perform
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| 02:02:37 3736.34 |
Young black woman with afro dances slowly and seductively n rehearsal studio of Harlem Theater THEATER WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE directed by Robert MacBetth
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| 02:13:41 4400.94 |
RECORDING A BAD MEMORY - workshop performance Harlem Theater directed by Robert MacBeth
CU woman cries and screams |
| 02:16:34 4574.11 |
quotes from Black Panther "minister of information " Eldridge Cleaver MacBeth talks about Cleaver getting shot and busted in Cleveland Ohio
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| 02:17:09 4608.74 |
Ed Bullins : Playwright. shots of Bullins with narrator discussing his work
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| 02:19:58 4777.59 |
Black Playwright Ed Bullins resights some of his verses
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| 02:21:31 4870.76 |
black Jazz musician Junior Mance and group at recording session inside recording studio Free form jazz over actors performing scene from play live in studio Jazz poetry
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| 02:23:25 4984.66 |
Black couple dance at Harlem Theater rehearsal space Showcase performance. man boxes punches boxing bag
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| 02:24:56 5075.87 |
chairman of BLACK PANTHER party Bobby Seale on state giving angry radical speech civil rights Seale makes demands for black people in decadent white society
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Bobby Seales speech ends
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| 02:31:27 5466.8 |
Theater director MacBeth talks to actors about what he wants from them: about needing " the blood of people on the stage., the spirit and blood of people "
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| 02:32:22 5521.97 |
Black actors at workshop do acting warm up exercises
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| 02:34:12 5631.32 |
scroll of members of the NEW LAFAYETTE THEATER circa 1968
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| 02:34:34 5654.07 |
young black Harlem community members walk out of storefront on to Harlem street dancing to James Brown record. Harlem 125th Street scene
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| 02:35:29 5708.98 |
black couple watch tv interview with black actor
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