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The Lincoln Motion Picture Company

A Tribute to Excellence in Race Cinema

Cinema · Representation
01 — THE INTRODUCTION

An exploration of early African American filmmaking and the determination to tell Black stories through a Black-centered cinematic lens.

Curatorial preview · Additional original imagery, source references and full exhibition commentary will be added from the exhibition archive.

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CHAPTER 01

A different frame

The exhibition foregrounds the ingenuity and independent initiative of early Black filmmakers. Archival material and researched contextual notes will be added with the exhibition’s original source material.

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CHAPTER 02

A cinema of possibility

Early film was also a battleground over who could represent themselves and how. This folio will build a visual account from surviving records and exhibition objects.

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