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A Nigger in the Woodpile (1904)

A Nigger in the Woodpile poster
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
4 min
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A short silent film from 1904. The title refers to an old racist idiom. A copy is kept in the Library of Congress black films section.

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What happens

A Nigger in the Woodpile is a 1904 American silent film, with a runtime of four minutes. The title is derived from the idiom nigger in the woodpile, meaning something is wrong or "off". A copy is in the black films section of the Library of Congress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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