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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220485-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1941
Country: USA
Location: Harlem, New York City,nyc/studio
TC Begins: 06:48:08
TC Ends: 07:02:17
Duration: 00:14:09
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Murder On Lenox Avenue R4 of 4 Crooked businessman Marshall & Lomax leave meeting of Better Business League; into Black club. Jim w/ singer, juditha, at table, promises money, Marshall sits down & they plot. 06:49:30 Rosalia rings Pa’s bell, asks for Jim; goes to club, sees Jim wooing singer. Leaves upset. Jim, Marshall & henchman Lomax in dark alley plant bomb intended for Pa Wilkins. 06:51:15 Jazz band rehersal practice on stage w/ US flag; conductor scolding musicians; pianist Flivver leans on table,then lays down. Conductor shouts at him; band starts to play again. Conductor drops stick finds bomb under table; musicians throw it to one another & yell. 06:54:44 Flivver runs outside, puts bomb in barrel. Musicians fan conductor; start to play as bomb detonates, smoke appears, musicians collapse. 06:55:50 Greensboro Courier newspaper headline: “Bomb Found In Progress Hall”, read by Ola in South. She & Greg head north. MCU streamliner railroad train runby camera (13 seconds). 06:56:18 Pa Wilkins makes speech in hall; Marshall at back of hall instructs Lomax to shoot him. Blacks cheer Wilkins. 06:57:03 Traffic in front of Pennsylvania Statiooni. Ola leaves station (?), gets in taxicab. Rosalia slowly climbs stairs at boarding house, upset. 06:58:14 Wilkins introduces Black immigrant newly granted citizenship who says: “Tonight, friends I can call you Fellow Americans; something that I’ve never had the right to say before.” Both make speeches re being American means being against putting bombs against people & only thinking of themselves; and being ready to work & being ready to fight for the rest of us!” 06:59:02 Audience wave banners w/ “We Are Not Afraid”, “United We Stand” etc. 06:59:32 Rosalia to window. Meeting continues parading. A scream, crowd on pavement around body; police arrive. Gregory and Ola get home to find suicide note revealing Rosalia pregnant by Jim. 07:00:27 Club singer & Jim w/ Marshall at meeting. Greg & Ola arrive; give Jim Rosalia’s note. Ola hugs Pa, tells him about Rosalia; music stops. Pa approaches Jim, angry; Marshall orders henchman to shoot & Jim jumps in front of bullet. Ola: “Now I know what you’re fighting for”. Pa: “It’s for the future children. Your future, our future, and the future of our race”. The End. Oddities; Ghettos; Poverty; Segregation; Morality; Civil Rights; 1940s Race Films; Movies; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk