Film Date
9/27/72
Film Reference Number
KPIX 109749
Description
KPIX Eyewitness news report from September 27th 1972 featuring a protest over the exploitation of the black community in Blaxploitation films. Protesters carry signs that read "The Black Community Will Not Be Exploited Anymore!" Seale gives an interview in which he discusses the ways in which white producers exploit the black community to make Blaxploitation films. Seale says "they use the black community to make the movies in the first place so why can't the black community at least get a percentage back?" Seale proposes that the Black Panthers' Survival Programs should get a percentage of the profits from Blaxploitation genre films which could then be reinvested in the black community. Remastered edited and catalogued for the web by Shira Peltzman.
Format
16mm newsfilm
Copyright
CBS5 KPIX-TV