We Work Again

We Work Again 1937

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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.

  • Released: 1937-09-05
  • Runtime: 15 minutes
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Stars: Lawrence Chenault, Eric Burroughs, Alma Dickson, Maurice Ellis
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