Film
Harlem Sketches
1935 · 16m
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Overview
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.
Crew
- Leslie BainDirector
Details
- Release date
- April 7, 1935
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 16m
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