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Auction History Result w214 WAY DOWN SOUTH magic lantern movie glass slide '39 Alan Mowbray Date Sold 6/27/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Glass Slide (measures approximately 3" x 4") (Learn More) Way Down South, the 1939 Bernard Vorhaus Louisiana juvenile musical ("Sugar cane is in!... Moon a-shinin'!... Dusky Dixie's dancing to voodoo drums! Rascallions... Plantation flirtations... New Orleans brawling, loving laughing! Here's the warmest, deepest heart show about the happiest land a-livin'!"; "Screen Play by Clarence Muse and Langston Hughes"; "It's heaven down in Dixie! Music's everywhere! Happiness is here! Flirtations.. rascallions.. minstrels.. voodoo dances.. and a heart-winning youngster fighting, scheming, to save a plantation paradise!.. You'll love its every glowing moment!.." about a young boy in post-Civil War Louisiana whose inheritance is threatened by a crooked lawyer, and he is helped to claim it by several kindly black and Cajun people) starring Bobby Breen, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Morgan, Clarence Muse, Steffi Duna, Sally Blaine, Hall Johnson Choir, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, and Willie Best. Note that this movie was co-written by Clarence Muse (one of the early black African American stars who pushed for better roles for blacks in movies), and by Langston Hughes (the famous African American poet), and yet the movie, as viewed on the screen, does very little to change the stereotype of black people at that time, portraying them as happy with the little they are given (one wonders if the studio did not make major changes in their script for the sake of 1930s "political correctness"!). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that the front pane of glass has a semi-circular crack in the bottom right corner that just enters the tip of the green background area. Otherwise, the slide is in quite nice condition! Glass slides were designed to be put in a special projector that would project the image onto a movie screen (they use exactly the same concept as 35mm slides). We have taken a digital photo of each that shows the general condition of the overall slide and holder, and we have also made a digital scan that shows the glass image well, but does not show the holder (except as a dark outline). Condition: good. This glass slide has clear condition problems that causes it to be in less than "very good" condition. We do NOT describe those defects in words (UNLESS the defect is a crack in one or both panes of the glass, in which case we ALWAYS describe it elsewhere within the auction in words), and you can likely see some or all of them in the "large" and "super-sized" images we provide. If you are the sort who can accept a major defect, then you should bid on items in this condition grade, BUT PLEASE DO NOT BID ON THESE ITEMS UNLESS YOU CAN ACCEPT THEIR VERY CLEAR DEFECTS! Learn More about condition grades 
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