Black history cannot be separated from the history of this country, Bradley (who also edited the film) intersperses scenes from the never-completed Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913), considered the oldest project boasting an all-Black cast, with contemporary documentary footage of Black youth for one poignant vision of a Black future. DIRECTED BY: Garrett Bradley. WITH: Charles Adams, Donna Crump, Victoria Hardway, Edward Spots. 2019. 27 min. USA. B&W. English. DCP.
The Flying Ace In The Flying Ace , the charismatic Laurence Criner plays a former World War I pilot-turned-maverick detective out to get a stolen satchel filled with $25,000 of company payroll and the gang of railroad thieves who took it. From the studio and director that made the now-lost feature Regeneration (1923), the film that gave the museum’s exhibition its name, The Flying Ace was filmed in Jacksonville, Florida. A spirited entertainment with chases, aerial derring-do, romantic intrigue, and an evocative cast of characters, The Flying Ace was added to the National Film Registry in 2021. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Richard E. Norman. WITH: Laurence Criner, Kathryn Boyd, Boise De Legge, Harold Platt. 1926. 65 min. USA. B&W. Silent. English intertitles. 35mm. Preserved by the Library of Congress.
SOMETHING GOOD - NEGRO KISS (1898)
Kathryn Bostic scores Something Good - Negro Kiss and The Flying Ace Sat, Jul 15 | 7:30pm | DGT Composer and singer-songwriter Kathryn Bostic is the first female African American score composer in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Tonight, Bostic presents the world premieres of new scores to two films: Something Good - Negro Kiss and The Flying Ace . Something Good - Negro Kiss Believed to be the earliest cinematic display of Black affection, Something Good - Negro Kiss portrays the joyous embrace of tenderness between a well-dressed man and a woman in an ornate dress. DIRECTED BY: William Nicholas Selig. WITH: Gertie Brown, Saint Suttle. 1898. 1 min. USA. B&W. Silent. 35mm. Restored 35mm print courtesy of USC HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive.
COMPENSATION (1999)
Compensation Sun, Jul 16 | 2pm | TMT
Director Zeinabu irene Davis’s first feature showcases two love stories: one set at the dawn of the 20th century, the other in the last year of it. Featuring a deaf woman and a hearing man (Michelle A. Banks, John Earl Jelks), both couples face the specter of death when the man is diagnosed with tuberculosis in the early story, and the woman with AIDS in the contemporary one. Inspired by a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, the film considers the ephemeral nature of love and life while illustrating the enduring challenges of race and racism. DIRECTED BY: Zeinabu irene Davis. WRITTEN BY: Marc Arthur Chéry. WITH: John Earl Jelks, Michelle A. Banks, Nirvana Cobb, Kevin L. Davis. 1999. 95 min. USA. B&W. English, American Sign Language. DCP. Digital presentation courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
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