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I found the plot difficult to follow, and he does not give full play to the \"money\" scenes at the conclusion but it is certainly of historic interest.",1800612275,1767744438,33777,"Archive.org",{"channelId":9,"sourceId":17,"id":17,"title":5,"size":18,"addedAt":19,"year":6,"downloads":20,"type":9,"channelName":15},"silent-within-our-gates",1552661168,1767744684,2922,{"channelId":9,"sourceId":22,"id":22,"title":23,"description":24,"size":25,"addedAt":26,"language":27,"year":6,"downloads":28,"type":9,"channelName":15},"within-our-gates-1920","Within Our Gates (1920)","I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. The oldest surviving film from an African-American director, Within Our Gates follows a young woman as she learns about her family history and what it means to be a black woman in 1920's America. The picture was thought of as a minor hit on release, and modern reviews have especially found much to praise from the film. ",2814911454,1767744786,"eng",64,{"channelId":9,"sourceId":30,"id":30,"title":31,"description":32,"size":33,"addedAt":26,"downloads":34,"type":9,"channelName":15},"withinOurGates1920","\"Within Our Gates\" [1920]","February in the United States celebrates \"Black History Month\" and thus this offering by Oscar Micheaux...\"Within Our Gates\" [1920]. It is a powerful narrative of an era long gone and exemplifies the ugliness of racial prejudice, injustice, and philosophically the collective conscience of mob mentality and loss of identity. Wikipedia... Within Our Gates (1920) is a silent race film that dramatically expresses the racial situation in America during the violent years of Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, and the emergence of the \"New Negro\". The story focuses on an African-American woman who goes North in an effort to help a minister in the Deep South raise money to keep a school open for poor Black children. Her romance with a black doctor eventually leads to revelations about her family's past that expose the racial skeletons in America's closet, most famously through the film's depiction of a lynching. Produced, written and directed by novelist Oscar Micheaux, it is the oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director. 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Sylvia learns that the reverend hasn't the heart to turn away poor students, and unless he can raise $5,000 to supplement the $1.49 per child per year that the state supplies, the school will be closed. She goes up north again to try to raise the money and has little success, but meets kindly negro, Dr. V. Vivian, who helps her regain her stolen purse. When she saves a child from being hit by an auto, she herself is slightly injured. But the owner of the car is philanthropist Mrs. Elena Warwick, who is sympathetic to her quest and promises to donate the $5,000 to the school. Her bigoted southern friend, Mrs. Stratton, tries to talk her out of the donation, and Mrs. Warwick gets so incensed she raises the amount to $50,000. Her job done, Sylvia returns to Piney Woods. But Dr. Vivian has fallen in love with Sylvia and goes to Alma to try to find her. There he learns the shocking details of her past and that of her family.","Oscar Micheaux","Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. 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