Selma (2014), color, 128 min. Directed by Ava DuVernay. Written by Paul Webb. Cast: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey. Photo credit: Atsushi Nishijima. © Paramount Pictures.

Impact/Reflection: Black Lives Matter

Before the Rise of Motion Pictures

Phantasmagoria magic lantern slide depicting skull, Gift of Akram Miknas, and Museum Purchase, ©Academy Museum Foundation, Photo by Joshua White Photography/JW Pictures.

Phantasmagoria

Director Spike Lee on location in Soweto, South Africa, during production of Malcolm X (1992). Photo credit: David Lee. © Warner Bros.

The Art of Moviemaking: Spike Lee

Peter Ellenshaw’s Matte Painting for Spartacus

Photo by Joshua White, JWPictures/©Academy Museum Foundation. Collection: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Preserving a Vanishing Art

Paul Robeson in Oscar Micheaux’s Body and Soul (1925). Courtesy of Kino Lorber

Black Silent Film Then and Now

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Developing the John Waters AR Face Filters

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Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Eiko Ishioka and Francis Ford Coppola

Dressing for Success: On the Basis of Sex

Black Silent Film Then and Now

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