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...Quakers (7-0 Ivy, 15-3 overall) are led by lottery candidate Jerome Allen. Their only weakness is in the middle, but Harvard does not exactly posses a Phi Slamma Jamma Olajuwon-Micheaux-Young frontcourt...
Race movies in this original conception were an answer to the racist and exclusionary movies coming out of "classic" Hollywood in the 1920s. Independent race movie producers, like Oscar Micheaux, set up their own production system that tried to represent the interests of African-Americans ignored or stereotyped by the Hollywood mainstream. These race, or "colored cast," producers struggled with only mediocre financial success until they were almost completely driven out of business. This eventual failure occured for a number of reasons, but mainly because the political dynamics of World War II Hollywood led to more complex portrayals of African...
Last week somewhat somnolent business was jarred by the beat of a tom-tom. Publicity-wise, plane-cracking, bemonocled Negro Aviator Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian announced that he had joined Micheaux Picture Corp. as associate producer. Occasion was the world premiere of The Notorious Elinor Lee, first of a series of pictures which Julian says he will make with Micheaux Pictures...
...Third Micheaux-Julian production will be an aviation picture in which Julian may act as aviator. "It will tell the story of my career, my crack-up when I tried to fly to Europe, my parachute jumping over the city, and my triumph in getting the Army to have Negro aviators...
...Hitherto Micheaux films have featured all-Negro casts. Producer Julian has other ideas: "Now, in our new picture, there are 18 whites. . . . When we need whites in the story, we are going to have whites...