Highlights of Academy Museum’s ‘Black Cinema’ Exhibit: Lena Horne’s ‘Stormy Weather’ Gown, Nicholas Brothers Home Movie
Through “Regeneration,” Berger and Combs aim to capture the nuances of Black performance and film creation from the start of the motion picture industry to the rise of the Blaxploitation era of the early 1970s.
One that got away: a military jacket that Josephine Baker wore while working as a spy for the French Resistance. The garment was in “such bad condition [and] could not be saved,” Berger explains. The exhibition opens with two versions of a clip from 1898’s “Something Good — Negro Kiss,” starring Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown in arguably the earliest example of onscreen affection by Black actors.
“We don’t shy away from [Blackface], and we recognize that minstrelsy is sort-of a formative part of American performance art, if you will,” Combs explains. “We recognize it as a popular form of artistry, but we also understand that it reinforced many racist stereotypes.
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