Bert Williams

Film

Discovered as a collection of unedited rushes in MoMA’s Biograph collection, Lime Kiln Club Field Day would have been the first American feature with an all-Black cast (1913) had it been released. Assembled by the Department of Film’s Ron Magliozzi and Peter Williamson, the film stars the popular musical theater performer Bert Williams as a top-hatted dandy who vanquishes his rivals to win the hand of a local beauty (Odessa Warren Grey). Shown with Fish, a one-reel comedy written, directed by, and starring Williams, released in 1916.

Program approx. 80 min.

Lime Kiln Club Field Day [archival assembly]. 1913/2014. USA. Directed by T. Hayes Hunter, Edwin Middleton

Fish. 1916. USA. Directed by Bert Williams

This film accompanies Biograph/Edison: Restorations and Rediscoveries from the Collection.

Fri, Mar 20, 2020, 7:00 p.m.

Canceled

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Sun, Mar 8, 2020, 2:00 p.m.

Piano accompaniment by Shari Cummings

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

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