We Work Again

The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized depiction of life in a segregated society. The highlight, by far, is rare footage of Orson Welles’s “Voodoo Macbeth,” produced in 1935 for the New York Negro Unit of the WPA’s Federal Theatre Project.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

15 minutes

Year:

1937

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Company:

Federal Works Agency

Cast:

Hecate

Doctor

The Duchess

Macbeth

Crew: