Stamps honor black cinema
“Princess Tam-Tam,” a 1935 film starring Josephine Baker, is one of five movies recalled on a set of U.S. postage stamps being released today to honor vintage black cinema.
Ceremonies marking the sale of the stamps will be held at the Newark Museum in New Jersey, which is holding a black film festival.
Other posters in the set of 42-cent stamps are:
* “Black and Tan,” a 19-minute film released in 1929 featuring Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra.
* “Caldonia,” an 18-minute film released in 1945. It showcased singer, saxophonist and bandleader Louis Jordan.
* “Hallelujah,” a 1929 movie released by MGM. It was one of the first films from a major studio to feature an all-black cast. Producer-director King Vidor was nominated for an Academy Award for his attempt to portray rural African American life, especially religious experience.
* “The Sport of the Gods,” a 1921 film based on a book by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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