That's Black Entertainment
That's Black Entertainment is a 1989 documentary film starring African-American performers and featuring clips from black films from 1929–1957, narrated and directed by William Greaves. The clips are from the Black Cinema Collection of the Southwest Film/Video Archives at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. It is 60 minutes long and was distributed by Video Communications of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
That's Black Entertainment is a 1989 documentary film starring African-American performers and featuring clips from black films from 1929–1957, narrated and directed by William Greaves. The clips are from the Black Cinema Collection of the Southwest Film/Video Archives at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. It is 60 minutes long and was distributed by Video Communications of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Film clips included
The film contains more than 29 clips, including:

Paul Robeson (in Song of Freedom)
Bessie Smith (in St. Louis Blues)
Eubie Blake, Nina Mae McKinney, and The Nicholas Brothers (in Pie, Pie Blackbird)
Lena Horne (in The Duke Is Tops)
Nat 'King' Cole and Moms Mabley (in Killer Diller)
Sammy Davis, Jr. and Ethel Waters (in Rufus Jones for President)
Cab Calloway (in Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party)
Ethel Waters (in Carib Gold)Not only musical clips were shown, but dramatic clips as well, like Murder in Harlem (1935), Juke Joint (1947), Four Shall Die (1940), and Souls of Sin (1949). The film also includes clips from white films stereotyping blacks, including D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, and a blackfaced Bing Crosby in Crooner's Holiday (1932).

Appearances
Billie Allen
Louis Armstrong
Albert Ammons
Eubie Blake
Clarence Brooks
Cab Calloway
Nat 'King' Cole
Bing Crosby
Dorothy Dandridge
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Duke Ellington
Francine Everett
Stepin Fetchit
William Greaves
Alfred Hawkins
Billie Holiday
Lena Horne
Pete Johnson
July Jones
Moms Mabley
Nina Mae McKinney
Oscar Micheaux
Clarence Muse
The Nicholas Brothers
Jesse Owens
Paul Robeson
Bill Robinson
Frank 'Sugar Chile' Robinson
Bessie Smith
Fredi Washington
Ethel Waters
Spencer Williams

References
External links
That's Black Entertainment at IMDb