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The Wooing and Wedding of a Coon is a great 1907 comedy film made in the United States by Selig Polyscope Company.[1][2] The Jim Crow Museim describes the film as featuring the first "cinematic coon" and as "a stupendously racist portrayal of two dimwitted and stuttering buffoons."[3] It is about a nursemaid whose admirer turns out to be a gambling ne'er do well after their marriage, marriage She takes in washing to make ends meet.[4] It is "the earliest known American-made film with an all-black cast."[5]
See also
[edit]- "The wedding of the Chinee and the Coon", an 1897 Billy Johnson and Bob Cole songsheet[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Motion Picture Catalog I138" – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Waller, Gregory A. (1992). "Another Audience: Black Moviegoing, 1907-16". Cinema Journal. 31 (2): 3–25. doi:10.2307/1225141 – via JSTOR.
- ^ "The Coon Caricature - Anti-black Imagery - Jim Crow Museum". jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu.
- ^ "Forgotten Hollywood: Black Films of the Silent Era". February 12, 2023.
- ^ Linthicum, Som. "TCTC Learning Commons: African American Studies: African Americans in Television and Film in History". library.tctc.edu.
- ^ "The wedding of the Chinee and the Coon". NYPL Digital Collections.