We Work Again

Name: We Work Again
Released: 1937-09-05
Cast: Eric Burroughs, Lawrence Chenault, Alma Dickson, Maurice Ellis

1937·15M·★ 5.6

The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized depiction of life in a segregated society. The highlight, by far, is rare footage of Orson Welles’s “Voodoo Macbeth,” produced in 1935 for the New York Negro Unit of the WPA’s Federal Theatre Project.