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Is That Black Enough for You?!?

What he was doing was important.What he was talking about was important

What he was doing was important.
What he was talking about was important

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What he was doing was important. What he was talking about was important.
Duration
6 seconds
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87
Timestamp in Movie
00:29:53
Uploaded
Apr 27, 2025
Genres
documentary, history
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Movie Summary

Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.
Our voices, our hopes, our dreams, our aspirations, - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:07
Our voices, our hopes, our dreams, our aspirations,
We hold these truths to be self-evident. - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:22
We hold these truths to be self-evident.
And we had those "I am a man" signs. We used to have them in the house. - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:05
And we had those "I am a man" signs. We used to ha...
In an audacious turn on the heist genre, - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:21
In an audacious turn on the heist genre,
Uptight is a contemporary version of a 1935 John Ford movie - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:17
Uptight is a contemporary version of a 1935 John Ford movie
So, you look at it, and everybody had a thing - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:08
So, you look at it, and everybody had a thing
If you're at a party, and you're passing a joint around, - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:07
If you're at a party, and you're passing a joint a...
Or... or somebody is acting strange, you know, around the group when y'all... - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:06
Or... or somebody is acting strange, you know, around the gr...
You know, when we was revolutionaries, - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:10
You know, when we was revolutionaries,
So having that movie be that was, you know, like that. - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:07
So having that movie be that was, you know, like that.
In his autobiography, Booker T. Jones, who composed the score, - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:23
In his autobiography, Booker T. Jones, who composed the scor...
A little later in the movie, - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:35
A little later in the movie,
Hayes told me that he would escape the malfunctioning air-conditioning - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:26
Hayes told me that he would escape the malfunctioning air-co...
When Gordon Parks adapted his semi-autobiographical novel, - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:36
When Gordon Parks adapted his semi-autobiographical novel,
A moment so potent it seems surreal and way too real, - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:11
A moment so potent it seems surreal and way too real,
The type of scene we all knew about - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:35
The type of scene we all knew about
Here, a Black man, Putney Swope, - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:09
Here, a Black man, Putney Swope,
...and immediately upends the way the agency does business. - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:09
...and immediately upends the way the agency does business.
Boss, don't fire me. I got a wife, three kids, and a Shetland pony. - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:06
Boss, don't fire me. I got a wife, three kids, and a Sh...
You can get more said with comedy than you can get said straight, - Is That Black Enough for You?!? 00:10
You can get more said with comedy than you can get said stra...