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| A poster for Spencer Williams’s directorial debut. Credit via Museum of Modern Art, New York |
NEW YORK---"The Blood of Jesus" is one of the films included in a series “
A Road Three Hundred Years Long: Cinema and the Great Migration,” that opens today at the Museum of Modern Art. Produced in 1941, it was described by
The New York Times as "a gospel-documentary-ethnographic melodrama." Produced with financing by white backers, the films were part of a genre of "religious folk pageants" targeting black audiences and filled with black gospel music. The film series serves as a companion to MoMA exhibition
One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North. [
link]
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| The Blood of Jesus. 1941. USA. Directed by Spencer Williams. Courtesy Sack Amusement Enterprises/Photofest |
