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What makes a Black movie Black ? Keith Murphy © Moviestore/Shutterstock A new special edition of EW celebrates a century of Black Film but first we had to decide what that meant. What defines a Black movie? For the earliest filmmakers of color, the answer was pretty simple: Movies featuring Black actors telling stories intended for Black audiences. Once known by all as race films, they came first from pioneers such as William D. Foster, who, beginning in 1912, produced silent comic shorts that aimed to improve the representation of Black people the films were slapstick but never buffoonish. Or Tressie Souders, among the first directors to make movies with a woman s vision. Or the prolific Oscar Micheaux, arguably our first indie auteur, who raised the funds, wrote the scripts, and directed some 40 pictures. They catered to an African-American population starved for positive, dignified images in an era when the most celebrated film was D.W. Griffith s 1

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