We Work Again (1930)

★★★★★ · Great archive, silly direction · bhikku · 2009-09-19

Could you imagine today making a film about African-Americans with a white voice-over saying "We work again!" Segregation was a very strange time... great play footage though.

★★★★ · First directing effort by Orson Wells preserved · Kieran Kenney · 2004-02-15

An interesting fim mostly because it preserves the final moments of the acclaimed Voodoo Macbeth, the first directorial effort by Orson Wells. The film doesn't mention that he was the one who directed it, but his mark is chillingly unmistakable. The rest of the film is also very interesting. It provides an series of vignettes into contruction sites, playgrounds, garment factories, health care facilities thoughout the U.S. durring the 1930s. The fact that blacks are limited to manual labor and the arts cries out to be discussed. Funny how, according to this film, no african americans grew up…

★★★★ · There's Irony in this, of course too... · Spuzz · 2005-04-29

Very very curious film, parts of which I've seen before, (with the black choir singing) that tells how black people are working again! This all could be celebrated except for the fact that for every scene I saw, I kept adding stuff. EG, we see people making appetizers and I added, "for the white man", some lady making a bed, I thought "for the white man", there's a scene where a housing development was being built which I wanted to add to the narration, "that none of you black people will ever get a chance to live in". I'm not being racist of course, because the film is full of segregation.…