Movie

We Work Again (1937)

• September 5, 1937
• 15m

• Documentary

Overview

The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized depiction of life in a segregated society. The highlight, by far, is rare footage of Orson Welles’s “Voodoo Macbeth,” produced in 1935 for the New York Negro Unit of the WPA’s Federal Theatre Project.

Starring

Eric Burroughs, Lawrence Chenault, Alma Dickson