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A Study of Negro Artists

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ART DOCUMENTARY: On Black artists in sculpture, photography, painting, sketching, etching, writing, and on antique African art. Reel 1: Artist Palmer Hayden, muralist Aaron Douglas, sculptors Richmond Barthe and Augusta Savage, and photographer James Latimer Allen demonstrate techniques. Reel 2: Artists Benjamin Spurgeon Kitchin, Lois Mailou Jones, the late Malvin Gray Johnson, Aaron Douglas, sculptor William Ellisworth Artis, and pen-and-ink sketch artist Georgette Seabrooke show techniques. Close-ups of African art objects. Artist/writer James A. Porter displays assembled materials for his book on Black accomplishments. Closeup of landscape by Robert S. Duncanson. Curator Arthur A. Schomburg shown art display at the Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints, New York Public Library, West 135th Street Branch. Reel 3: Artists Charles Alston, Susie Maribel McIver, and Augusta Savage teach studio classes. Richard William Lindsey and William E. Artis teach youngsters at the YMCA, and Hale A. Woodruff teaches at Atlanta University, Georgia. Reel 4: Exterior, Delphic Studios, New York. Harmon Foundation sponsors Cuban Negro Art display. Artist Pastor Argudin y Pedroso discusses his work with visitors. Children look at children's art. Fine art displayed in prominent Black homes includes The Governor's House in Tangier by Henry O. Tanner, etchings by Albert Alexander Smith, and Sammy sculpted by Sargent Johnson. Art display at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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Art in Action With Dong Kingman

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ART FILM: Shows how Dong Kingman, Chinese-American artist, interprets life in water color. Reel 1: He shows some of his works, paints in Grand Tetons, Wyoming, and teaches class at Columbia University, New York. Step-by-step close-ups of Kingman painting New York City skyline. Reel 2: Artist demonstrates water color techniques and shows examples of his work for fabrics, magazines, and children's books.

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Free Reading for All

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Documentary: On the development of American public libraries. R.1: Shows Columbia University Library, New York Public Library and Peterboro Library, New Hampshire. Patrons use library materials, including phonograph records and braille readers. Librarian conducts children's story hour. R.2: Shows school, local, apartment house libraries, and Chinese patrons at the Chatham Square Library, New York. Montifiore Hospital volunteer, in New York, moves book cart to patients' rooms; bookmobile serves rural areas in Rutland, Vt. Researchers in the Library of Congress reading room, Washington, D.C.

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Harlem Day Camp, New York

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These outtakes contain unedited footage showing a day camp in Harlem, New York, conducted by the Children's Aid Society of the City of New York and the Boys Club. The footage includes Black children playing baseball, jacks, and board games. It also shows children using outdoor playground equipment, playing in a fire hydrant, napping, learning how to fence, craft, and dance, and receiving food.

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Outtakes from "A Study of Negro Artists"

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This film contains Outtakes from "A Study of Negro Artists" and describes Black artists, their paintings, sculptures and techniques, and New York museums and buildings. Reel 1 contains scenes of the late Malvin Gray Johnson, James Latimer Allen, Charles Alston, Susie Maribel McIver, Benjamin Spurgeon Kitchin and William Ellisworth Artis. Artists teach adults and children. In reel 2, Artists work at various jobs to finance artistic pursuits. Palmer Hayden, Richmond Barthe, Aaron Douglas and Lois Mailou Jones show techniques and paintings and sculptures in various stages of completion. In reel 3: Artis, Georgette Seabrooke, Richard William Lindsey, Alston, Johnson, Augusta Savage and Barthe teach painting, etching and sculpture. James A. Porter, writer, gathers materials for his book on Black achievements. Mrs. William E Harmon and others at exhibition of Spanish Black art by Pastor Argudin y Pedroso. Hayden paints at New York waterfront; N.Y. skyline. James L. Allen in his photography studio. Art students sketch a live elephant at zoo and includes close-ups of hands at work. In reel 4: Barthe sculpts large clay figure. Georgette Brooke is shown in her studio. Children admire paintings by peers and shows visitors at Pastor Argudin y Pedroso's exhibit and the Art museum interior. Reel 5 shows New York street, near the Empire State Building during Christmas holidays; people decorate outdoor tree. The Whitney Museum of American Art is shown including a gallery and paintings. A Chinese man unpacks and examines Chinese figurines in Wing and Company office. Delphic Studio exhibits Suzanna Ogumajmi's paintings. Reel 6 includes artists Seabrooke, M. G. Johnson, Savage, McIver and L. M. Jones and New York street signs. A boy with basketball poses for art class. There is a live elephant and adult artists, paintings and sculptures. Reel 7 shows many titles and scenes which were used in edited version. Artists include Barthe, Savage, Kitchin M. G. Johnson, Seabrooke, J.L. Allen, Artis, Hayden, McIver, Alston, Lindsey, Hale A. Woodruff and writer J.A. Porter. Etchings by Albert Alexander Smith on wall of a private home; woman unpacks and displays Sargent Johnson's sculpture, "Sammy". Visitors and paintings by Pastor Argudin y Pedroso at Harmon Foundation headquarters, N.Y. Reel 8: include artists Barthe, Hayden, Artis, Douglas, Seabrooke, Savage, and photographer J. L. Allen. Artists and sculptors at work, and teaching students. Reel 9: includes artists Savage, Barthe, Artis, Douglas, Lindsey, Seabrook and Hayden. Curator Arthur Schomburg of 135th Street branch. N.Y. Public Library, at his desk. Art students work.

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PORTRAIT OF A NEW YORK WATERFRONT AS PAINTED BY PALMER HAYDEN

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ART INSTRUCTIONAL FILM: On oil painting by the Negro artist. Shows Palmer Hayden searching for a scene to paint. Hayden sketches the Brooklyn Bridge and part of Manhattan waterfront. Shows the step-by-step process of painting on canvas.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Porters Play Cricket

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These outtakes contain unedited footage showing Black Pennsylvania Railroad porters playing cricket in Jamaica, Long Island, New York.

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THE NEGRO AND ART

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ART FILM: On the Harmon Foundation's fifth exhibition of sculpture, paintings and photography by Negro artists at the Art Center, New York City. Guests tour the gallery. Dr. Samuel McCune Lindsay, Columbia University, presides at awards ceremony. Speakers include architect Harvey Wiley Corbett and YMCA executive Channing Tobias. William E. Harmon's daughter, Helen Griffiths Harmon, awards prizes to artists Palmer Hayden, James A. Porter, Earle Wilton Richardson and James Lesesne Wells; to photographic artist James Latimer Allen and sculptor William Ellisworth Artis. Representatives of Harmon Foundation include Mrs. William E. Harmon, Evelyn S. Brown and Mary Beattie Brady. Other guests include Dr. George E. Haynes; Dr. Thomas Else Jones, President, Fisk University; Dr. Herbert Adolphus Miller, Bryn Mawr; Dr. Robert Russa Moton, President, Tuskegee Institute; Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, Phelps Stokes Fund; Arthur Howe, President, Hampton Institute; and Alon Bement, National Alliance of Art and Industry. Dr. Alain Locke, Howard University, with sculptor Richmond Barthe. Drawings and sculpture by Sargent Johnson displayed, but artist is not seen.

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THEY WILL SMILE AGAIN, IF

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PROMOTIONAL DOCUMENTARY: On the plight of post-war Yugoslavia. The United Yugoslav Relief Fund of America and the National War Fund/Community Chest seek American contributions. R.1: Map shows Yugoslavia. Scenes contrast pre-and post-war conditions, showing destruction and poverty. New York City traffic where, at the relief fund warehouse and workshop, workers sort and repair donated clothing. AFL-CIO garment workers cut new clothing, enclose sewing instructions, and pack garments for shipment. Women knit sweaters and pack comfort kits. R.2: Shows baling of clothing. Trucks arrive at pier; longshoremen load bales on cargo ship SS Paine Wingate. Montage of hands working on donations. Title asks for contributions.

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Y.W.C.A., HARLEM, NEW YORK

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OUTTAKES: On activities at Harlem Branch, Young Women's Christian Association. Reel 1: Young women in dance class. Reel 2: Classes include tailoring, dressmaking, business skills, cafeteria service, art and dance. Reel 3: Girls greet guests, learn social graces, swimming, nursing, dancing and archery; others practice business skills, home-making and sewing. Small children in dance class. Students serve food in cafeteria.

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Y.W.C.A., HARLEM, NEW YORK

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PROMOTIONAL DOCUMENTARY: On training, sports and recreation available to Negro women in New York. Through a visualized letter from a student to her mother, illustrates the advantages of Y.W.C.A. programs toward individual social and economic independence.

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