Race Film Database

Project website: http://dhbasecamp.humanities.ucla.edu/afamfilm/about-the-project/ We are a group of undergraduate and graduate students in the Digital Humanities program at the University of California, Los Angeles. This main goal of this project was to collaboratively create a database on early African-American silent race films by drawing together information in a wide range of primary and secondary sources. For the purpose of this project, we determined that we would only include silent films created before 1930 by African-Americans companies for African-American audiences.<em> </em>This definition was the main factor that informed our decisions to include or exclude pieces of data. (You can read more about how we arrived at our definition here: http://dhbasecamp.humanities.ucla.edu/afamfilm/whatis/definition/.) The database we have created contains information on films, actors, production companies, and other aspects of early silent-era African American race films. The database is intended to allow the public to learn about this period in film history that is too rarely discussed.