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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Harlem Sketches
- Overview
- Crew
Status
Released
Release Date
Apr 7, 1935
Runtime
0h 16m
Original Title
Harlem Sketches
Production Companies
Vanguard Films, Film and Photograph League
Director
Leslie Bain
Description
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.
