Harlem Sketches

Bearing witness to the wretched living conditions of Harlem’s black population during the Great Depression, this short film was shot in the same year as the first race riot in that neighbourhood, now regarded as a distant ancestor of the “Black Lives Matter” movement.

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Duration:

16 minutes

Year:

1935

Director:

Leslie Bain

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Company:

Vanguard Films,

Film and Photograph League

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