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...fighting for the sake of the good ol' US of A, then a message of racial unity had to be played up in numerous wartime morale-boosting movies. More diverse images of Blacks proliferated in Hollywood--major studios even made Black cast movies of their own (i.e. MGM's "Cabin in the Sky" (1943) directed by Vincent Minelli and starring Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne and Ethel Waters)--so the independent race movie makers were squeezed out of the market, unable to compete with the slickness and polish of higher budget Hollywood films...
...extensive collection of posters in A Separate Cinema includes many for movies that have since been lost, for re-makes of original films, and for foreign movies starring African-American actors. Most are accompanied by a passage explaining their significance. There are six distinct versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin, including one for cartoonist Tex Avery's "Uncle Tom's Cabana" in which, it is ironically pointed out, "liberties taken with the original story permit Uncle Tom to be run over with a steamroller and cut in half with a sawmill blade...
...movies the posters highlight. For example, the original poster for "The Duke Is Tops" (1938) features Ralph Cooper's name emblazoned boldly across it and Lena Horne's name in the fine print at the bottom. In the re-release of the film after Lena Horne achieved stardom in "Cabin in the Sky" and "Stormy Weather," the film is retitled "The Bronze Venus," and the posters focus on her now marketable name and face...
OVER AND OVER, IN ENGLISH, JAPANESE AND KOREAN, the voice on the passenger- cabin intercom repeated, "Urgent descent. Fasten seat belts. Put on masks." Those chilling words and others from the "black box" voice recorder, recovered from the wreckage of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, put to rest the nine-year-old question of whether the 269 passengers died instantly after Soviet fighters shot them out of the sky on Sept. 1, 1983. The crew's response to the disaster provided further evidence that they had no idea they had been attacked by air-to-air missiles. The transcripts...
...that had been 20 years ago and a quarter-billion kilometers away. The playback came to an end; sound, vision, the scent of unknown flowers and the gentle touch of the wind slowly faded. Suddenly, he was back in this cabin aboard the orbital tug Goliath, commanding the 100-person team of Operation ATLAS the most critical mission in the history of space exploration. Toby, and the stepmothers and stepfathers of his extended family, remained behind on a distant world which Singh could never revisit. Decades in space -- and neglect of the mandatory zero-G exercises -- had so weakened...