(Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry)

Content: “I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry,” McDaniel said as she accepted the 1st Academy Award given to an African-American for her performance in the film Gone with the Wind. “Analysis” of a continuity error in a clip from a film of the 1939 Oscars ceremony suggests that the “documentary” footage and McDaniel’s speech were re-staged.

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6 minutes

Year:

2004

Directors:

Ina Diane Archer

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Self (archive footage)

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