Dark and Cloudy

Directed by

Craig Hutchinson

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How it feels

A comedy short from 1919 uses blackface as a gag. It involves white actors in a sketch filmed by the Gayety Comedies studio.

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What happens

Dark and Cloudy is a 1919 film with Lillian Biron and George Ovey. It is part of the Library of Congress Black Films paper print collection, although it appears to be a comedy short featuring white actors. The film has been described as using blackface as a comic pretext. It was directed and written by Craig Hutchinson. The film was advertised by its studio, Gayety Comedies, alongside the 1919 film Lovesick at Sea. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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