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Black actor Bert Williams (far left) performs in blackface in the “Bert Williams Lime Kiln Field Day Project” (1913), believed to be the oldest surviving film footage featuring black actors, recently discovered and restored by the Museum of Modern Art Film Archive.

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Jonathan Mandell is a 3rd generation NYC journalist, who sees shows, reads plays, writes reviews and sometimes talks with people.

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