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Screening Race in Nontheatrical Film

This resource for Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film, edited by Allyson Nadia Field and Marsha Gordon, offers links to all available streaming content that is referenced in each chapter. The editors have worked with the book's contributors, as well as with archives and archivists, to provide as much access as is possible to the films and media discussed in the collection. The aim of this resource is to make the book, which addresses many films that have not been widely seen, as relevant, as teachable, and as useful as possible.

Foreword. "Giving Voice, Taking Voice: Nonwhite and Nontheatrical" by Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

The Corner (Dir. Robert Ford, 1962). Chicago Film Archives.
Easter 55 Xmas Party (Jean Patton Collection, 1955). South Side Home Movie Project, University of Chicago.

Introduction. Allyson Nadia Field and Marsha Gordon

Akira (Dir. David Espar, 1971). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
Cotton Eyed Joe (Dir. John McDonald, 1970). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
Eastside Story (Dir. Morteza Rezvani, 1974). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
Felicia (Dirs. Bob Dickson, Alan Gorg, and Trevor Greenwood, 1965). Academic Film Archive of North America; A/V Geeks; Academy Film Archive.
A Sense of Community (Dir. Jeremy Lezin, 1976). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
Savages (Dir. Alan Gorg, 1967). UCLA Film & TV Archive.
Ujamii Uhuru Schule Community Freedom School (Dir. Don Amis). UCLA Film & TV Archive.

Chapter 1. "'A Vanishing Race'? The Native American Films of J. K. Dixon" by Caitlin McGrath

Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency (Dir. Joseph Kossuth Dixon and Roland Dixon, 1908). Human Studies Film Archive, Smithsonian.

Chapter 2. "'Regardless of Race, Color, or Creed': Filming the Henry Street Settlement Visiting Nurse Service, 1924–1933" by Tanya Goldman

Helping Hands (director unknown, 1924). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
Untitled/The Visiting Nurse (director unknown, 1927). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
The Work of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse in the City of New York (Anne Marvin Goodrich, 1933). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.

Chapter 3. "'I'll See You in Church': Local Films in African American Communities, 1924–1962" by Martin L. Johnson

Solomon Sir Jones (Dir. Rev. Solomon Sir Jones, 1924-1928). Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Rev. S. S. Jones Home Movies, Reel 1 (Dir. Rev. Solomon Sir Jones, 1924-1928). Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Rev. S. S. Jones Home Movies, Reel 2 (Dir. Rev. Solomon Sir Jones, 1924-1928). Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies, Reel 3 (Dir. Rev. Solomon Sir Jones, 1924-1928). Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies, Reel 4 (Dir. Rev. Solomon Sir Jones, 1924-1928). Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies, Reel 5 (Dir. Rev. Solomon Sir Jones, 1924-1928). Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies, Reel 7 (Dir. Rev. Solomon Sir Jones, 1924-1928). Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies, Reel 8 (Dir. Rev. Solomon Sir Jones, 1924-1928). Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies, Reel 9 (Dir. Rev. Solomon Sir Jones, 1924-1928). Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Historic Films site, where you can search for the Reverend L.O. Taylor Collection (Dir. Rev. L.O. Taylor, 1936-1954). Center for Southern Folklore, Memphis, TN. [must do search on site, no direct link]

Chapter 4. "The Politics of Vanishing Celluloid: Fort Rupert and the Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw in American Ethnographic Film" by Colin Williamson

Fort Rupert (Dir. Hy Hirsch, 1951). Film print in the J. Fred MacDonald Collection, Library of Congress; American Indian Film Gallery.

Chapter 5. "Red Star/Black Star: The Early Career of Film Editor Hortense 'Tee' Beveridge, 1948–1968" by Walter Forsberg

Ages of Time (Dirs. Lew Jacobs and Lloyd Ritter, 1959). National Museum of African American History and Culture's Pearl Bowser Collection.
Hands of Inge (Dir. John W. Fletcher, Jr., ca. 1962). National Museum of African American History and Culture's Pearl Bowser Collection.
Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth in Action (Dir. Hortense Beveridge, 1965). National Museum of African American History and Culture's Pearl Bowser Collection.

Chapter 6. "Charles and Ray Eames's Day of the Dead (1957): Mexican Folk Art, Educational Film, and Chicana/o Art" by Colin Gunckel

Day of the Dead (Dirs. Charles and Ray Eames, 1957). YouTube.
Doña Rosa: Potter of Coyotepec (Dir. Orville Goldner, 1959). Academic Film Archive of North America.
Mexican Village Life (Dir. Willard C. Hahn, 1958). Academic Film Archive of North America.
Pottery Workers of Oaxaca (Dir. Ralph Adams, 1952). Academic Film Archive of North America.

Chapter 7. "Ever-Widening Horizons? The National Urban League and the Pathologization of Blackness in A Morning for Jimmy" by Michelle Kelley

A Morning for Jimmy (Dir. Barry K. Brown, 1960). NARA, Internet Archive.

Chapter 8. "'A Touch of the Orient': Negotiating Japanese American Identity in The Challenge (1957)" by Todd Kushigemachi and Dino Everett

The Challenge (Dir. Claude Bache, 1957). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.

Chapter 9. "'I Have My Choice': Behind Every Good Man and the Black Queer Subject in American Nontheatrical Film" by Noah Tsika

Behind Every Good Man (Dir. Nikolai Ursin, 1967). UCLA Film & TV Archive.
Look at Life (Dir. George Lucas, 1965). YouTube.
Tongues Untied (Dir. Marlon Riggs, 1989). California Newsreel.

Chapter 10. "Televising Watts: Joe Saltzman's Black on Black (1968) on KNXT" by Joshua Glick

Black on Black (Dir. Joe Saltzman, 1968). UCLA Film & TV Archive; YouTube.

Chapter 11. "'A New Sense of Black Awareness'? Navigating Expectations in The Black Cop" by Travis L. Wagner and Mark Garrett Cooper

The Black Cop (Dir. Kent Garrett, 1969). USC Moving Image Research Collections; Internet Archives.

Chapter 12. "'Don't Be a Segregationist: Program Films for Everyone': The New York Public Library's Film Library and Youth Film Workshops" by Elena Rossi-Snook and Lauren Tilton

That Rotten Teabag (Dir. Andrew Gurion, 1964). Courtesy of the artist.

Chapter 13. "Teenage Moviemaking in the Lower East Side: The Rivington Street Film Club, 1966–1974" by Noelle Griffis

The Potheads in "Let's Get Nice" (Dir. Alfonso Sanchez, Jr., ca. 1967). The New York Public Library, Reserve Film and Video Collection; Internet Archive.

Chapter 14. "Ro-Revus Talks about Race: South Carolina Malnutrition and Parasite Films, 1968–1975" by Dan Streible

Who Lives With You? (Dir. Dave Smalley, 1969). University of South Carolina Cooper Library, Educational Films Collection.
Ro-Revus Talks about Worms (director unknown, 1971). University of South Carolina Cooper Library, Educational Films Collection; Internet Archive.
Ascaris, A Human Parasite (Dir. Dan Gavin, 1972). University of South Carolina Cooper Library, Educational Films Collection; Internet Archive.
Ro-Revus . . . Act 1 (Or . . . Don't Take a Worm to Lunch) (director unknown, 1975). University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections Digital Video Repository.
Ro-Revus . . . Act 2 (Or . . . Wash Wash, Scrub Scrub) (director unknown, 1975). University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections Digital Video Repository.
Ro-Revus . . . Act 3 (Or . . . As the Worm Turns) (director unknown, 1975). University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections Digital Video Repository.
Unhooking the Hookworm (Dir. George Skinner, 1920). Rockefeller Archive Center (12 min.) and NARA (10 min.).
What You Eat, You Are (Dir. Tom Shirk, 1970). A/V Geeks; Internet Archive.
Exit Ascaris (Dirs. B. H. Ransom & Fred. W. Perkins, 1921). NARA.
Food and Drugs (director unknown, 1968). A/V Geeks; Internet Archive.

Chapter 15. "Government-Sponsored Film and Latinidad: Voice of La Raza (1971)" by Laura Isabel Serna

The Voice of La Raza (Dir. William Greaves, 1971). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.

Chapter 16. "An Aesthetics of Multiculturalism: Asian American Assimilation and the Learning Corporation of America's Many Americans Series (1970-1982)" by Nadine Chan

Felipa: North of the Border (Dir. Bert Salzman, 1970). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
Geronimo Jones (Dir. Bert Salzman, 1970). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
Lee Suzuki: Home in Hawaii (Dir. Bert Salzman, 1973). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
Matthew Aliuk: Eskimo in Two Worlds (Dir. Bert Salzman, 1973). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
Miguel: Up From Puerto Rico (Dir. Bert Salzman, 1970). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
Overture: Linh from Vietnam (Dir. Seth Pinsker, 1981). Academic Film Archive of North America.
Siu Mei Wong: Who Shall I Be (Dir. Michael Ahnemann, 1970). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
Todd: Up From Appalachia (Dir. Herman J. Engel, 1970). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
William: From Georgia to Harlem (Dir. Hank Nadler, 1971). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
Welcome to Miami, Cubanos (Dir. Peter Mark Schifter, 1981). USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.

Chapter 17. "'The Right Kind of Family': Memories to Light and the Home Movie as Racialized Technology" by Crystal Mun-hye Baik

Memories to Light. Center for Asian American Media.
Bohulano Family Collection (c. 1950-1970s), 15 short films, Super 8mm. Center for Asian American Media in partnership with the Internet Archive
Gee Family Collection (1978-1983). Center for Asian American Media in partnership with the Internet Archive.
Tachibana Family Collection (1976-1983). Center for Asian American Media.

Chapter 18. "Black Home Movies: Time to Represent" by Jasmyn R. Castro

African American Home Movie Archive.
South Side Home Movie Project.
Hayes Family Movies (1956-1962). The Wolfson Archives at Miami Dade College.
Sandra Bean Home Movie Collection (c.1930s-1940s). African American Museum and Library at Oakland, California.
J. Max Bond Sr. Home Movies (1940-1946). Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The Michael Cook, Jr. Collection (1960s). Texas Archive of the Moving Image.
Solomon Sir Jones (Dir. Rev. Sir Solomon Jones, 1924-1928). Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Spiller Doughty Home Movies (1950-1985). African American Home Movie Archive.

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