We Work Again

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A tribute to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in their efforts to find jobs for African-Americans during the Great Depression of the 1930s.A tribute to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in their efforts to find jobs for African-Americans during the Great Depression of the 1930s.A tribute to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in their efforts to find jobs for African-Americans during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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- 1 nomination

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Charles Collins

Macduff

Eric Burroughs

Hecate
(uncredited)

Lawrence Chenault

Doctor
(uncredited)

Alma Dickson

The Duchess
(uncredited)

Maurice Ellis

Macbeth
(uncredited)

Juanita Hall

Self - Choir Director
(uncredited)

Zola King

Third Witch
(uncredited)

Edna Thomas

Lady Macbeth
(uncredited)

Josephine Williams

Second Witch
(uncredited)

Wilhelmina Williams

First Witch
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Contains the last five minutes of the Federal Works Project production of "Voodoo Macbeth", directed by Orson Welles.

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Narrator: A number of household training schools have been established by WPA. In these schools, girls from relief families prepare for domestic work which will make them self-supporting. Others take the course in order to learn the arts of home-making for use in their own homes. In modern kitchens, under competent instructors, the girls are taught to cook and prepare salads and other delicacies which add much to everyday meals.

Crazy credits
The narrator credits Juanita Hall as the choir director during the sequence showing the choir. She is barely visible at the left.

Connections
Featured in American Experience: The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996)

Soundtracks
Ezekial Saw the Wheel
Conducted by Juanita Hall

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Interesting Bit of History

We Work Again (1937)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

This short film certainly isn't anything ground-breaking but it's very much worth watching for a number of reasons. The main goal of this film was to educate black people that jobs were coming back after the Great Depression and this is an attempt to give people ideas of what they could do. There are some very interesting things here but of course the most fascinating is just being able to see a film that was produced for and aimed at black folks during the depression. After WWI they were hit hardest with a lack of jobs so it's fascinating getting to see how this was trying to educate them of their options. The other fascinating thing is getting to see clips from a production of MacBeth, which was being directed by Orson Welles. No footage of Welles is shown here, which is too bad but it's still great getting to see what he was working on.