George Eastman Museum restoration project Murder in Harlem selected for screening at Cannes Film Festival

George Eastman Museum restoration project Murder in Harlem selected for screening at Cannes Film Festival
Still from Murder in Harlem (1935).
ROCHESTER, NY
.-The George Eastman Museum announced that its recent restoration of Murder in Harlem (1935), a rare film directed by Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951), has been selected to be screened in the Cannes Classic series at the 74th Annual Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes) in France. The festival will be held from Tuesday, July 6, through Saturday, July 17, 2021. The Eastman Museum collaborated with the Cineteca di Bologna, in Italy, to preserve the film.
Murder in Harlem is among a group of motion pictures referred to as “race films,” a term used to refer to films with Black casts created for Black audiences between 1915 and 1950. The original 35mm print was discovered in 1983 in a warehouse in Tyler, Texas, as part of an extensive collection of race films. The prints now belong to the Southern Methodist University/Tyler, Texas Film Collection, SMU Libraries. The George Eastman Museum is the custodian of the nitrate prints in the collection.

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