This is an installment in a multi- part series.
Film history has a long and messy timeline. With the ease of tossing aside older movies from eras of silence and black and white, holes easily pop up. Lead Outreach and Engagement Librarian Elizabeth Riordan noticed this while going through the University of Iowa’s own collection. Riordan shares insight on the history of Black films by zeroing in on a lobby card for a 1920s film kept in the UI archives.
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