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Dancing Darkies (1896)

Dancing Darkies poster
Directed by
William Kennedy Dickson
Genre
short film, documentary film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1 min
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a short silent film from 1896. It shows a group of black children dancing for the camera.

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What happens

Dancing Darkies is an 1896 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film shot by William K.L. Dickson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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