found:Work cat.: That's Black entertainment, c1997:opening credits for v. 1 (Race movies : the early history of Black cinema with three original short films)
found:Konigsberg, Ira. Complete film dict., 2nd ed.(Race films. A term used to designate films with African American casts made specifically for African American audiences begun in the late silent-film days and continuing until the end of the 1940s.)
found:Blandford, Steven. Film studies dict., 2001(Race film. Term used in the American film industry from the silent cinema through the 1940s to refer to movies made by African-American film-makers specifically for African-American audiences.)
found:Katz, Ephraim. Film enc., 4th ed.(Race movies. Features with all-black casts made specifically for African-American audiences)
found:Richards, Larry. African American films through 1959:p. 5 (In response to Birth of a nation, efforts began in the African-American community to show a more honest depiction of Black people by producing the first "all-colored cast" feature movies, or "race films.")