We Work Again
First aired on Sep 5, 1937
Runtime: 15mins
50%
Genres: Documentary
The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized depiction of life in a segregated society. The highlight, by far, is rare footage of Orson Welles’s “Voodoo Macbeth,” produced in 1935 for the New York Negro Unit of the WPA’s Federal Theatre Project.
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Eric Burroughs | Hecate
Lawrence Chenault | Doctor
Alma Dickson | The Duchess
Maurice Ellis | Macbeth
