We Work Again (1937)

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.

Release Date : Sep 05, 1937

Runtime : 15m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : Federal Works Agency

Countries : United States of America

Keywords : new deal, short film