Fredi Washington

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white woman over her for marriage.

La viuda Beatrice Pullman (Claudette Colbert) empieza a obtener beneficios gracias a las recetas de repostería de su sirvienta negra Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers). Mientras tanto, la hija de Beatrice (Rochelle Hudson) se enamora de su padrastro. Por su parte, la hija de la sirvienta (Fredi Washington) se empeña en hacerse pasar por blanca

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity.

Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

In this short film, musical and dance acts perform, first at a night club, then at a "rent party".

Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with heart trouble even though it means work for his band. Sure enough, she collapses on stage...

A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.