One Large Evening
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A black and white short set in Harlem from the early film era. It follows a plot that relies on offensive racial caricatures of Black people. The film was later given a different title for white audiences.
datedunsettlingstereotypicalstagedbriefsilent-eraracially chargedurban setting
What happens
One Large Evening, also known as A Night in Coontown, is a 1914 short American film. It was produced by Hunter Haynes. A short filmed in black and white, Larry Richards describes it as offensive with derogatory stereotypes of blacks. It is set in Harlem. Lester Walton wrote about how the film was retitled for white audiences. It was an Afro-American Film Company production. The film Mandy's Choice followed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
A Study of Negro Artists (1935)
A Nigger in the Woodpile (1904)
Lulu Belle
Harlem Hotshots (1945)
The Black Network (1936)
The Casting (1971)
Skyscraper Symphony (1929)
Going the Limit (1925)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.