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African American Contributions to Film Collection, 1934-2003

A Guide to the holdings at the Black Film Center/Archive

Finding aid prepared by Mary Huelsbeck/Hannah Caproon/Gabriel Gardner

Summary Information

Repository
Black Film Center/Archive
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library, Room 044
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
Phone: 812-855-6041
Fax: 812-856-5832
Email: bfca@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/~bfca

Creator
African American Contributions to Film

Title
African American Contributions to Film Collection, 1934-2003

Collection No.
Special Collection AACF

Extent
11 boxes

Language
Materials are in English and Japanese

Abstract
The African American Contribution to Film Collection contains advertising materials, photographs, pressbooks, press kits, and Japanese programs for films and several television series dating from 1934 to 2003 featuring African Americans.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Scope and Content Note

Performers represented in the collection include Dorothy Dandridge, Paul Robeson, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Jim Brown, Richard Pryor, Spike Lee, Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, Whoopi Goldberg, and Halle Berry. Highlights include pressbooks for the films Carmen Jones (1954), The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), and Zou Zou (1934), press kits for the films Baby Boy (2001), Do the Right Thing (1989) , and Silver Streak (1976), photographic stills for the films Ballad in Blue (1966), Five on the Black Hand Side (1973), Nothing But a Man (1964), and Superfly (1972) and Japanese programs for the films Fatal Beauty (1987), Gothika (2003), Men in Black (1997), and The Nutty Professor (1996).

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Date of acquisition: March 2009.
Usage Restrictions
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Archivist.
Preferred Citation
[item], African American Contributions to Film Collection, Special Collection AACF, Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Processing Information
Processed by Mary K. Huelsbeck.

Completed in March and April, 2009

  • Indexing Terms

  • The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the catalog using these terms.

    • Names
    • Belafonte, Harry, 1927-.
    • Berry, Halle.
    • Dondridge, Dorothy, 1922-1965.
    • Goldberg, Whoopi, 1950-.
    • Jones, James Earl.
    • Lee, Spike.
    • Murphy, Eddie.
    • Poitier, Sidney.
    • Pryor, Richard.
    • Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.
    • Smith, Will, 1968-.
    • Topics
    • Advertising--Motion pictures.
    • Motion picture actors and actresses.
    • Motion pictures--United States.
    • Stills (Motion pictures).

Collection Inventory


Series: Advertisements, 1937-1977 

Subseries: Flyers 1937-1974

Box 1 Foxy Brown, 1974  King Solomon's Mines, 1937

Box 6 Truck Turner, 1974

Subseries: Newspaper Ads 1972-1977 

Buck and the Preacher, 1972 Joshua, 1977

Subseries: Poster, 1939

Paradise in Harlem, 1939

Series: Programs, 1979-2003

Subseries: Japanese Programs

Box 1 Bird, 1988 Coming to America, 1988 Cool Runnings, 1993 Enemy of the State, 1998 Fatal Beauty, 1987 Gothika, 2003 Iron Eagle, 1986 Lethal Weapon 4, 1998 Men in Black, 1997 Men in Black II, 2002 Nutty Professor, The, 1996 Rocky II, 1979 Rush Hour, 1998 Sister Act 2, 1994 Wild Wild West, 1999

Series: Photographs, 1937-1989

Subseries: Movie Photographs

Box 2 All Night Long, 1962 Ali Baba Goes to Town, 1937 Amants de Montparnasse, 1958 Amazing Grace, 1974 Artists and Models, 1937 Ballad in Blue (aka Blues for Lovers), 1966 Black Belt Jones, 1974 Black Ceasar, 1973 Black Girl, 1972 Black Samson, 1974 Blazing Saddles, 1974 Bone, 1972 Book of Numbers, 1973 Born Free, 1974 Boxcar Bertha, 1972 Boys in the Band, 1970 Brewster's Millions, 1985 Brother John, 1970 Brothers, 1977 Buck and Preacher, 1972 Calypso Joe, 1957 Car Wash, 1976 Castle Keep, 1969 Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, 1974 Charley-One-Eye, 1972 China Gate, 1957 Claudine, 1974 Cleopatra Jones, 1973 Come Back Charleston Blue, 1972 Comedians, The, 1967 Convicts 4, 1962 Cool Breeze, 1972 Cool World, The, 1964 Cotton Club, The, 1984 Cowboys, The, 1984 Crooklyn, 1994 Cruisin' Down the River, 1953 D.C. Cab, 1983 Defiant Ones, The, 1958 Detective, The, 1968 Diamond Safari, 1958 Do the Right Thing, 1989 Drink, Drank, Drunk, 1975 Earthquake, 1974 Eddie Murphy "Raw", 1987 El Condor, 1970 Evening at Pops: Nell Carter, ca. 1985 Fortune Cookie, The, 1966 Five on the Black Hand Side, 1973 Free, White and 21, 1963 Go, Man, Go!, 1954 Gone are the Days (aka Purle Victorious), 1963 Hammer, 1972 Hanky Panky, 1982 Harder They Come, The, 1973 Hit!, 1973 Home of the Brave, 1949

Box 3 Human Factor, The, 1979 I Crossed the Color Line, 1966 I Escaped From Devil's Island, 1973 If He Hollers, Let Him Go!, 1968 In the Heat of the Night, 1967 Island Women, 1958 It's Good to be Alive, 1974 Jaws 3-D, 1983 Jeffersons, The, 1976, 1978, 1984 Joanna, 1968 Johnny Cool, 1963 Julia, 1968 Key Witness, 1960 Lady Sings the Blues, 1972 Lean on Me, 1989 Learning Tree, The, 1969 Legend of Nigger Charley, The, 1972 Let's Do It Again, 1975 Let's Rock!, 1958 Liberation of L.B. Jones, The, 1970 Mack, The, 1973 Macumba Love, 1960 Malcolm X, 1972 Man, The, 1972 Mandabi, 1968 Mandingo, 1975 Maurie, 1973 Mogambo, 1953 Moment of Danger (aka Malaga), 1960 Mondo Bizarro, 1966 Naked Africa, 1957 New York, New York, 1977 Norman...Is That You?, 1976 Nothing But a Man, 1964 Nun's Story, The, 1959 Odds Against Tomorrow, 1959 Omega Man, The, 1971 One Potato, Two Potato, 1964 Organization, The, 1971 Paris, 1979 Patch of Blue, A, 1965 Phenix City Story, The, 1955 Piece of the Action, A, 1977 Predator 2, 1987 Professionals, The, 1966 Purple Rain, 1984

Box 4 Record City, 1978 Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, 1985 Report to the Commissioner, 1975 Richard Pryor...Here and Now, 1983 Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip, 1982 River Niger, 1976 Rio Conchos, 1964 Riot, 1969 Roots, 1977 Safari, 1956 Salt and Pepper, 1968 Sapphire, 1959 Save the Children, 1973 Schiave Esistano Ancora, Le (aka Slave Trade in the World Today), 1964 Shaft, 1971 Shaft's Big Score, 1972 Shaft in Africa, 1973 Shock Corridor, 1963 Short Eyes, 1977 Sins of Rachel Cade, The, 1960 Skidoo, 1968 Slams, The, 1973 Soul of Nigger Charley, The, 1970 Soul Soldier, The (aka Red, White and Black), 1976 Sparkle, 1976 Stigma, 1972 Super Fly, 1972 Super Fly T.N.T., 1973 Swashbuckler, 1976 Sweet Jesus, Preacherman, 1973 Sweet Sugar, 1973

Box 5 Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song, 1971 Terry Whitmore, For Example, 1969 That's My Mama, 1974 To Sir, With Love, 1967 Together Brothers, 1974 Three Tough Guys, 1974 Too Late Blues, 1961 Two Tickets to Paris!, 1962 Virgin Witch, 1972 Vite Perdute (aka Lost Souls), 1958 Warm December, A, 1973 Watermelon Man, 1970 Watusi, 1959 West of Zanzibar, 1954 When You're Smiling, 1950 Which Way is Up?, 1977 Whiffs, 1975 White Dawn, The, 1974 Wild Rovers, 1971 Woman of Straw, 1964 Wonder Women, 1973 WUSA, 1970 W.W. & The Dancekings, 1975 Young Americans, 1967 Young One, The, 1960 Young Swingers, The, 1963 Zanzabuku, 1956 Zebra Killer, The, 1974 Zulu, 1964

Series: Pressbooks, 1934-1979

Subseries: Movie Pressbooks

Box 6 Ace High, 1968 Apocalypse Now, 1979 Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, 1971

Box 11 Carmen Jones, 1954

Box 6 Convicts 4, 1962 Death of a Gunfighter, 1969 Jackie Robinson Story, The, 1950 Make Believe Ballroom, 1949 Miracle in Harlem, 1948 Mister Buddwing, 1966 Pawnbroker, The, 1964 Soul to Soul, 1971 Take a Hard Ride, 1975 This Rebel Breed, 1960 Truck Turner, 1974

Box 11 Zou Zou, 1934

Series: Press Kits, 1955-2002

Subseries: Movie Press Kits

Box 7 Adventures of Pluto Nash, 2002 Air Up There, The, 1994 Baby Boy, 2001 Bird, 1998 Bulworth, 1998 Color Purple, The, 1986 Coming to America, 1988 Crooklyn, 1944 Cry Freedom, 1987 Devil in a Blue Dress, 1995

Box 8 Do the Right Thing, 1989 Double Team, 1997 Family Thing, A, 1996 Fast Forward, 1985 Fled, 1996 Get on the Bus, 1996 Ghost Dad, 1990 Gone Fishin', 1997 Good Burger, 1997 Great White Hype, The, 1996 He Got Game, 1998 Heavyweights, 1995 Heist, 2001 Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, A, 1978 Higher Learning, 1995

Box 9 Hoodlum, 1997 How Stella Got Her Groove Back, 1998 I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, 1998 In Living Color, 1990 Jefferson in Paris, 1995 Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling, 1985 Lean on Me, 1989 Little Nikita, 1987 Major Payne, 1995 Metro, 1996 Native Son, 1988 Nothing to Lose, 1997 Primary Colors, 1998 Rhyme & Reason, 1997 School Daze, 1988

Box 10 Shoot to Kill, 1988 Sight and Sounds, ca. 1955 Silver Streak, 1976 Slam, 1998 Soul Food, 1997 Soul of Nigger Charley, The, 1973 Telephone, The, 1987 You So Crazy, 1994

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