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 for African-American audiences. 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.项目官网：http://dhbasecamp.humanities.ucla.edu/afamfilm/about-the-project/ 我们是加州大学洛杉矶分校（University of California, Los Angeles）数字人文（Digital Humanities）项目的本科生与研究生团队。 本项目的核心目标为，通过整合广泛的一手资料（primary sources）与二手资料（secondary sources），协作构建一部早期非裔美国人无声种族电影（silent race films）数据库。 本次项目明确将收录范围限定为1930年前面向非裔美国受众制作的无声电影，该界定标准是决定数据收录与剔除的核心依据。（您可通过以下链接了解我们敲定该界定标准的详细过程：http://dhbasecamp.humanities.ucla.edu/afamfilm/whatis/definition/。） 我们搭建的数据库涵盖了早期无声种族电影的影片、演员、制片公司及其他相关维度的信息。 本数据库旨在向公众普及这段长期被忽视的电影史篇章。