- Title: V-3223
- Summary: ALL AMERICAN NEWS: RARE EXAMPLE OF ALL BLACK NEWSREEL. PRODUCED IN THE 1940s THIS NEWSREEL SERIES WAS SPECIALLY FOR BLACK MOVIE GOING AUDIENCES AND SHOWN ONLY IN MOVIE THEATERS TO BLACK AUDIENCES. AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
- Description:00:00:42 - TITLE CARD: THREE NEGROES SEEK OFFICES UP FOR ELECTIONS AS NEW YORK COUNCILMEN 00:00:52 - MS CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR N.Y. COUNCILMEN: NORMAN JOHNSON, BENJAMIN DAVIS, JR. & JOHN A. ROSS 00:01:24 - TITLE CARD: HAITI PRESIDENT VISITS WASHINGTON, D. C. ELIE LESCOT MAKES FINE IMPRESSION 00:01:30 - PRESIDENT LESCOT'S LIMOUSINE ARRIVING, POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS, MEETING PRESIDENT & ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, MEMBERS OF HIS CABINET 00:02:13 - TITLE CARD: LESCOT TELLS OF HAITI WAR EFFORT 00:02:19 - MS LESCOT GIVING SPEECH IN FRENCH W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES AT BOTTOM OF SCREEN 00:03:39 - TITLE CARD: FOREIGN STUDENTS CROWD HOWARD U TAKE UP MANY ARTS, TRADES & PROFESSIONS 00:03:44 - MS PAN BLACK FOREIGN STUDENTS FROM CARIBBEAN, AFRICA & ELSEWHERE 00:04:58 - BANQUET HONORS CONGRESSMEN POWELL MANY WELL KNOWNS AT TESTIMONIAL TO STATESMAN 00:05:03 - MS NAMIE BURROUGHS AT PODIUM INTERCUTS ALL BLACK AUDIENCE 00:05:11 - SCU MRS. FANNY ROBINSON & COUNCILMEN BEN DAVIS 00:05:15 - MS THE BLACK EAGLE HUBERT JULIAN 00:05:18 - MS & CU REVEREND ADAM CLAYTON POWELL AT PODIUM INTERCUTS AUDIENCE OF UPPER CLASS WOMEN SOME WEARING FUR COATS 00:05:37 - TITLE CARD: UNION WORKER OFF TO BRITAIN WILL STUDY PROBLEMS OF WOMEN IN INDUSTRY 00:05:41 - MS FEMALE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LABOR DELEGATION TO ENGLAND BEING CONGRATULATED BY AFL SPOKESMAN 00:06:01 - CU WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE GIVING SPEECH ON BEHALF OF INTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS UNION AMERICANS GOING TO LEARN FROM ENGLAND 00:06:38 - TITLE CARD: AFRICANS IN ACTION 81ST WEST AFRICAN DIVISION IN BURMA 00:06:45 - SCENES OF NIGERIAN SOLDIERS IN BURMA CARRYING FIGHTING EQUIPMENT ON THEIR HEADS, CROSSING A RIVER IN SMALL BOATS 00:07:52 - SCENES FROM 81ST DIVISION HOSPITAL BIVOUAC MEDICS DOCTORS BANDAGING WOUNDED SOLDIERS, LISTENING TO HEARTBEATS 00:08:24 - TITLE CARD: INTERRACIAL GROUP MEETS YOUTH CONDUCTS WAR ON PREJUDICE 00:08:30 - SCENES FROM CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO, INTERCUTS AUDIENCE & SPEAKERS AT PODIUM. PATRICIA CASSIDY, KERRY OR CARRIE GREEN AT PODIUM. STUDENTS, TEACHERS & MEMBERS OF CLERGY IN AUDIENCE 00:09:20 - TITLE CARD: CONGRESSMEN FROM NEW YORK AND ILLINOIS 00:09:24 - MS & CU DAWSON & POWELL WALKING AROUND CAPITOL BUILDING IN WASHINGTON D. C. 00:09:51 - TITLE CARD: START 1945 DRIVE FOR COLLEGE FUND CHAIRMAN OF CAMPAIGN GIVEN TOKEN OF THANKS 00:09:58 - MS DIRECTORS OF UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND DR. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY, DR. PATERSON. WALTER HUBBING PRESENTED SCROLL FOR HIS HELP IN THE DRIVE 00:10:19 - MS PAN FLORENCE REED, DR. PATERSON & THOMAS JONES 00:10:28 - MS GROUP PAN 00:10:39 - TITLE CARD: FREEDOM CELEBRATED CONGRESSMAN POWELL SPEAKER IN WASHINGTON 00:10:44 - VARIOUS ANGLES CONGRESSMAN POWELL AT PODIUM ON ANNUAL FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATION. INTERCUTS AUDIENCE LISTENING & APPLAUDING 00:11:23 - TITLE CARD: CONDUCT NEGRO HISTORY WEEK DR. WOODSON, FOUNDER OF IDEA TALKS 00:11:30 - MS DR. WOODSON TALKING ABOUT THE CELEBRATION & BLACK / NEGRO ACHIEVEMENTS 00:12:27 - TITLE CARD: FICTION AWARD TO NEGRO GIRL ANN PETRY WINS $2,400 FOR THE STREET 00:12:34 - MS ANN PETRY & AUBREY PANKING ?SP 00:12:54 - TITLE CARD: CAPITAL MAN WELL AT 102 VOTED FOR GRANT, AND STILL YOUNG 00:12:59 - MS MR. WIGGINS BEING INTERVIEWED TALKS ABOUT VOTING FOR GRANT 00:13:23 - TITLE CARD: NO RELAXING FOR O. P. A. LEADERS URGE ALL TO CONTINUE EFFORT 00:13:30 - SCENES FROM REGIONAL MEETING IN CHICAGO 00:13:40 - CU POSTERS CIRCA 1940s ON FIGHTING INFLATION 00:13:50 - PUBLIC RELATIONS EXPERT BRYANT A. HAMMOND GIVING PRESENTATION. USING POINTER & VISUAL BOARD. CU POSTERS URGING CITIZENS TO CAR POOL PREVENT INFLATION 00:14:49 - TITLE CARD: NOTABLES AT CONFERENCE LIBERIANS AND ETHIOPIANS PRESENT 00:14:53 - LS PAN SAN FRANCISCO CIRCA 1940s. MS CAPITAL BUILDING, S.F. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS CARS 00:15:07 - SAN FRANCISCO TRAIN STATION. TRAINS CIRCA 1940s PULLING INTO STATION, COMMUTERS PASSENGERS ON PLATFORM 00:15:14 - MS PAN DELEGATES FROM LIBERIA, COL. GRANT, WALTER WALKER, RICHARD HENRY, SENATOR J. L. GIBSON, SEC. OF STATE J. L. DENNIS & V. P. C. L. SIMPSON 00:15:30 - CU BLACK BUSINESSMEN & WOMEN LEAVING TRAIN 00:15:37 - MS PAN ETHIOPIAN DELEGATES 00:15:51 - MS MEMBERS OF ELKS CLUB, JAMES KELLY & WIFE JUDGE PERRY HOWARD, MRS. TERESA ROBINSON, HENRY LEWIS AND MORE 00:16:20 - ELK MEMBERS, DELEGATES WALKING PAST VIEWER 00:16:32 - MOTORCADE WITH MOTORCYCLE POLICEMEN PASS VIEWER 00:16:42 - C. I. O. UNION HOLDS RALLY CHICAGO MAYOR AND PAUL ROBESON SPEAK 00:16:47 - SCENES FROM RALLY IN CHICAGO STOCK YARD WORKERS MAYOR KELLY AT PODIUM. MS PAN WORKERS LISTENING PAUL ROBESON, ACTOR, AT PODIUM. 00:17:09 - MS GROUP OF BLACK MEN LEANING & SITTING ON CARS LISTENING INTERCUTS ROBESON AT PODIUM 00:17:15 - MS AUDIENCE OUTDOORS APPLAUDING 00:17:19 - SCU MAYOR KELLY & PAUL ROBESON 00:17:27 - TITLE CARD: DELEGATES VISIT ZOO SAUDI ARABIANS ON SIGHT SEEING TOUR 00:17:33 - MONTAGE SAUDI DELEGATES WALKING AROUND ZOO IN TRADITIONAL ARABIC COSTUME. UNITED NATIONS. 00:17:44 - YOUNG GIRL PRESENTS FLOWERS TO DELEGATES 00:17:48 - CU SAUDI DELEGATES IN COLORFUL COSTUME 00:18:09 - MS ZOOKEEPER RIDING GIRAFFE LIKE A HORSE 00:18:24 - TITLE CARD: ATTY. GIBSON IS PROMOTED TOLEDO LAWYERS IS GIVEN NEW POST 00:18:28 - SCENES OF JAMES GIBSON IN HIS OFFICE SMOKING PIPE, GOING THROUGH PAPERS, BOOKS, WORKING LOOKING AT MAPS, OPENS GLASS BOOKCASE, READING FROM BOOKS. SCHOLARLY MAN 00:19:04 - TITLE CARD: TROOPS RETURN FROM EUROPE FIRST GROUP LANDS AT PORT OF NEW YORK 00:19:08 - SCENES OF SHIP BRINGING IN SOLDIERS TO NEW YORK HARBOR MS PAN BLACK SOLDIERS 00:19:32 - MS SOLDIERS DEBARKING SHIP, WALKING DOWN GANG PLANK WITH RUCKSACKS DUFFLE BAGS 00:19:50 - POV ON SHIP COMING INTO NEW YORK HARBOR STATUE OF LIBERTY IN B/G 00:20:09 - TITLE CARD: DR. DU BOIS AT DENVER REPORTS ON FRISCO WORLD CONFERENCE 00:20:13 - LS TILT DOWN CHURCH FACADE 00:20:20 - MS SPEAKER DR. WEB DU BOIS, DUBOIS, DEBOIS ON PULPIT ADDRESSING FULL HOUSE 00:20:48 - TITLE CARD: DRIVE HONORS MRS. BETHUNE SEEK $55,000 FUND ON HER ANNIVERSARY 00:20:53 - MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ON HER 70TH BIRTHDAY SPEAKING TO AUDIENCE FROM PULPIT INTERCUTS AUDIENCE. YOUNG WOMAN SPEAKER ALSO. 00:21:27 - TITLE CARD: COMMENCEMENT AT HOWARD U CIO LEADER AND ROBESON GET HONORARY DEGREES 00:21:33 - SCENES FROM HOWARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATION CEREMONY CIRCA MID 1940s. STUDENTS, FACULTY MEMBERS ALL GRADUATION CAPS & GOWNS MORTARBOARDS. HONORARY DEGREES. CU ROBESON RECEIVING DEGREE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: V-3223