Moon Over Harlem (1939) | All-Black Cast Film Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer

[@KEZIAHAMIRRA]

Born n raised in Harlem.. I love the old harlem... Its sad that its nuthin today.

[@bobbyschannel349]

I agree, Harlem in the 1920s 30s and 40s was all the rage for black people.. today, it means nothing.

[@jacksonfamily8903]

Best movie I've seen since Green Pastures made in 1932. Thank you I love this movie. There were characters in this movie who played in Green Pastures. I hope you find that movie and play it on KZbin. It's an all Black cast. And I love Harlem, it's screaming for leadership.

[@babydoll1006]

I have "Green Pastor"on dvd. A nice movie to have in ones black movie collection.

[@KarboneWolfoxide2]

Black film ❤️ how magnificent we still look good.

[@orethawitcher3133]

Grew up watching these old classic

[@sandragailgoudelock1531]

I tuned in because of the director, Edgar Ulmer and because it's a black cast. The night club scene made me think of what the Cotton Club instituted no girl darker than a paper bag.

[@joshua.l.henderson5209]

First and foremost oh my goodness this film 🎥 🎞 🎦 🎬 📽 😍 is very interested and wonderful Amazing ❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤

[@Serenityafterall]

Hi.....can you get "Hallelujah" it also has an all black cast . I think 1930's or so . I watched it on TCM about 8 yrs ago . Thank You ❗

[@reelblack]

Great film. It’s readily available on dvd through Warner Archive. You can get it through Amazon.

[@Serenityafterall]

@@reelblack Ok Thank You ❗ Enjoy

[@joystratton4658]

It was great seeing the Alhambra way back then!

[@angelahamlett8249]

From Brooklyn now living in Strivers row. It's so sad to see. Makes me wish Harlem never integrated. When Harlem died. Black Manhattan gone. Gentrification 2020.

[@dman221]

In the beginning of the film they all sitting on the couch. And the light skinned woman said “When I get married I am marrying me a High Yellow...he May beat me but I know my cooking would bring him around.” 🤔. Still that type of mentality today......but now they moved from High Yellow to Bright White. And it is no longer “he may beat me” to “he may kill me”.....,...............,.but I know me playing slave girl in the bedroom will bring him around.

[@cmorestuff898]

D Man: This is what I respect so much about the ReelBlack Family--nothing gets passed them. Colorism and low self-esteem among so many of our people in 1939 and the same thing in 2019. Thank you for your support and insightful comment. One Love. Peace and Blessings!!!

[@samuisun6684]

Its called propaganda, to put the purpose of the whole film front and centre (and totally out of place) right at the start of the film - most movies are made for the purpose of disseminating just one single punch, one single line, that is scientifically written and placed so that it has a very high probability of entering the subconscious mind of the viewer.

[@gailjackson8187]

Mike you have it All.! 😊 Hi

[@juliahamilton9125]

ExCEPTioNAL!🐥

[@gennettor8915]

Interestingly, when Bechet plays his clarinet, the sound is a soprano saxophone....

[@charleslawson4792]

Good Classic 🎥 Movie

[@bobbyschannel349]

43:50.. she changed the lyrics a little bit to St Louis Blues, but I like it's cute LOL

[@oluhamilton2121]

Is it my imagination or are Blacks treated with a sense of dignity in the picture??

[@SpfySpaceJam]

Probably just in the picture. Behind the scenes i can imagine all they went through just to be on screen.

[@Brembelia]

Honey, there ain't nuthin' dignified about a step-father goin after his step-daughter. 😮

[@imonymous]

I've never heard the term "high yellow" before.

[@sharonsylvie9100]

Imon really? That’s an old term

[@soniarena5250]

Its a term I heard more back when I was coming up. Older people still use the term. How old are you?

[@SpfySpaceJam]

I still hear it in the south

[@bobbyschannel349]

It's kind of a common term referring to very light-complected black people.

[@TheFirefox8192]

Everyone In the cast is no longer alive. Would be good to find our what happened to them.

[@ccth22]

Dollar Bill was the original Mack😛

[@erickthefantabulous1]

If they hadn't said 1939 in the description I don't know what year I would have guessed this movie was made I don't know if the directive was a black guy My guess is hes Probably Jewish Because they had to get the backing from somebody

[@jcarp2322]

A black man with a white woman in that one scene?! I am speechless!

[@znayJ]

Not a White entire cast was Black damn Nearly White🤣🖤

[@dorannam5126]

No, That woman IS NOT white she is just very very light skinned and LOOKS white therefore, she is a very very light skinned white looking black woman.As some of us black African people DO look like a white person,but that DOES NOT matter of course,they ARE NOT white,they or that person is still BLACK.

[@Boomboomroomish]

That's wasn't a White woman. That was against the law. She was a Biracial.

[@bobbyschannel349]

​@@Boomboomroomish well, if she was biracial, and if it was illegal, then she wouldn't be biracial. She was probably a MGM.. multi-generational mixed, which is probably very similar to Beyonce's mother's family. Not biracial, wasn't too many of them back then. Multi-generational mix very common inside the Black American communities. And that's exactly what she was.. not biracial. She did not have a one black or one white parent, like you said that would be illegal right... It wasn't common, What she probably was.. was an MGM black woman.. very light complected, very mixed, but part of the Black American ethnic group.

[@bobbyschannel349]

​@shwat2013 sweetheart, you posted this comment everywhere, and probably because you're noticing back in the old days. A lot of light complected black people, yeah. They were the center of media back the.. You have to remember what country you're from, you have to understand what the standard of beauty is in the United States... You have to remember back in those days yeah, light complexion was very common in fact, as a dark-complected 49 year old man. I can honestly tell you, we darkskins did not come in until around the early to mid-90s. So before then it was all about light-skinned, back in the 1980s when I was a young boy. It was about the DeBarge, Prince Christopher Williams Etc, that was the skin complexion all throughout the 20th century. We barely started to make our way in in the 1990s. So yeah, you're going to notice that it's going to be mostly light-skinned going before the 90s. And this is something that you're going to have to deal with. Not necessarily colorism, but simply the way it was.

[@craigburton2043]

wedding in 1939 cakes not the only thing getting cut..

[@thetruthteller.a.k.a.81the21]

At 46:47 You can see all through these supposed to be black women's clothing, how long have they been selling us off as hores I'm tired of it)(-;👿👿👿

[@ORIGINALTHINKA]

History

[@cmorestuff898]

ORIGINALTHINKA: Hello. Yes, it is indeed history. Ain't nothing changed. "The past is prologue". These uploads have a purpose. History is important. Study it. Learn from it. Or we will be doomed to REPEAT IT. Appreciate your support. Peace and Blessings!!!

[@englishMi7]

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[@znayJ]

Some of these Commentators make me SMDH

[@effu2]

no darkskint women in this. no woman is darker than a paper bag. lol.

[@imonymous]

i think it's also because darker skin showed so poorly on film.

[@imonymous]

@11STARFIRE Sorry, I assumed the men were also lighter than average. If you look at other nonwhite cultures though, you'll see the same thing. Everyone valued and often still values lighter skin more.

[@samuisun6684]

@11STARFIRE I find it amusing that you really believe that black people have a movie industry and that every film ever made for black people is not at the behest of white supremacy and a tool of some form of suppression of black greatness and continuation. They have always been obsessed with erasing melanin and black people breeding their colour away.

[@Boomboomroomish]

There aren't any dark skinned Black men in the film either. 😕

[@effu2]

@@Boomboomroomish lol, so what? It's THEIR movie, put whoever you want in it but why be stereotypically racist towards black people?

[@mariapasos7482]

That's different with a Black dress..

[@securitymode5847]

Grammy

[@Penrose-wi6tx]

Crabs in a barrow with these comments.....smh Highly suggests some people to read books by, Donald Bogle

[@robindavis7023]

Thanks. The women were beautiful.

[@2.3_44XD--]

56:44 no censoring just let dance with only a bikini 🎥

[@mariapasos7482]

I Like it when her daughter slapped him