August 8, 2003

Southern Methodist U. Digitizes Early African-American Films

By SCOTT CARLSON

A collection of rare African-American films that were nearly destroyed will find a new life and a new audience in the digital age.

Southern Methodist University has digitized nine feature movies made by black filmmakers from the 1930s and 1940s, along with a set of newsreels from the 1950s, and will put them on DVD this fall for distribution.

Tinsley Silcox, director of the university library and the film archives, says the university spent $65,000 to restore the films and

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