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The 1st Black Man on Motion Picture

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Just doing some web surfing and ran across a video. The video is a documentary filmed in New York to display the lifestyle for immigrants who came to America and to advertise to the people overseas to sway them to come to the U.S. The documentary was filmed in 1911. Its crazy because this is THE very first image of a Black Man on motion picture.





View: https://youtu.be/VC-yTYyE2w0?t=471
 

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    Just doing some web surfing and ran across a video. The video is a documentary filmed in New York to display the lifestyle for immigrants who came to America and to advertise to the people overseas to sway them to come to the U.S. The documentary was filmed in 1911. Its crazy because this is THE very first image of a Black Man on motion picture.





    View: https://youtu.be/VC-yTYyE2w0?t=471
    That was surprisingly good quality. The thing that is chilling to me is how helpless that brother is in that situation. If he did one thing wrong he could be punished by anyone in that video without recourse. He could have cut one of those white men off and they could have taken his life without consequence. That’s a life where you’re constantly on edge, we still live like that till this day but it’s slowly changing.
     
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    Just doing some web surfing and ran across a video. The video is a documentary filmed in New York to display the lifestyle for immigrants who came to America and to advertise to the people overseas to sway them to come to the U.S. The documentary was filmed in 1911. Its crazy because this is THE very first image of a Black Man on motion picture.





    View: https://youtu.be/VC-yTYyE2w0?t=471

    That was surprisingly good quality. The thing that is chilling to me is how helpless that brother is in that situation. If he did one thing wrong he could be punished by anyone in that video without recourse. He could have cut one of those white men off and they could have taken his life without consequence. That’s a life where you’re constantly on edge, we still live like that till this day but it’s slowly changing.
    I noticed in the documentary I was watching, The world was on press to come up with the video camera. Its like they were really really trying to get this thing right before the 20th Century. Thomas Edison named popped up as usaul as inventing one of the first motion picture machines. Edison slicker than "goose grease", his name stay all in american history. I f wit T.E. he might have taken credit or straight ripped off peoples patent but he did what he did like a DEBO.