195 300
350
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(FILM—) BLAXSPLOITATION.
CLARK, GREYDON.
The Bad Bunch.
Red, black and white poster, 41 x 26
3
⁄
4
inches; creases where folded; a couple of
short closed tears.
California, 1973 [1976]
[400/600]
Blaxsploitation film, set in the Los Angles Watts
section. A Vietnam veteran tries to deliver a
medal to a dead black soldier’s family, but he is
looked on with suspicion and old prejudices
prove to be near impossible to overcome. An
unusual approach to an all too familiar story.
350
349
349
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(FILM.) GRIFFITH, D.W.
Birth of a Race.
Engraved stock certificate, with
gold foil seal. 8
1
⁄
2
x 11 inches. Issued to Arthur C. Young for two $10 shares in the Birth of
a Race Photoplay Corporation. Signed by the last President and Secretary of the year-old
Corporation; the gold foil seal is worn and chipped, some offsetting on opposite side from
seal; else fine.
Chicago, 1918
[800/1,200]
ONE OF THE LAST CERTIFICATES ISSUED
,
AS THE FILM PREMIERED TWO MONTHS LATER
.
The
Birth of a Race was a silent drama film originally conceived in 1917 by Booker T. Washington. as an
African-American response to D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, which extolled the Ku Klux Klan and
painted African American as racist stereotypes. The production was eventually taken over by whites who
cut much of the original “Negro” footage and transformed the movie, by the time of its release just after the
end of World War I, into a “religious” German-American war story starring white actors. Nevertheless, it
is considered by historians to be the genesis of independent Black cinema which inspired African-American
filmmakers of the future.