Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry

“I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry,” McDaniel said as she accepted the 1st Academy Award given to an African-American for her performance in the film Gone with the Wind. “Analysis” of a continuity error in a clip from a film of the 1939 Oscars ceremony suggests that the “documentary” footage and McDaniel’s speech were re-staged.

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Language: English

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Runtime: 6 minutes

Quality: HD

Released: Jan 01, 2004

IMDb: 10

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