We Work Again

We Work Again

15 mins | Documentary | Sept. 5, 1937

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.

We Work Again

15 mins | Documentary | Sept. 5, 1937

We Work Again
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.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Federal Works Agency
Original title We Work Again
Directors
Writers

Cast

Eric Burroughs

as Hecate

Lawrence Chenault

as Doctor

Alma Dickson

as The Duchess

Maurice Ellis

as Macbeth