"A SEPARATE CINEMA" / Independent Black Films to be Televised!
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Beginning July 1, 1998, cable's Turner Classic Movies will air "A Separate Cinema," a month long tribute to black independent films of the 1920's through 40's. The 29-film festival, airing on five successive Wednesday nights, is being billed as "the most extensive and in-depth presentation in television history of early independent films made for African American audiences."

Scheduled films include a newly restored version of Oscar Micheaux's 1920 film, "The Symbol of the Unconquered" on July 1, "King Solomon's Mines" (1937), "Princess Tam Tam" (1935), "Zou Zou" (1934), "Miracle in Harlem" (1948), "The Jackie Robinson Story" (1950) "The Spirit of Youth" (1938), and the earliest known surviving black film, Micheaux's "Within Our Gates."