First Public Screening of 'Harlem Sketches'
- Title of event
- First Public Screening of 'Harlem Sketches'
- Type of event
- Performance
- Address of event
- First Public Screening of 'Harlem Sketches' Happened Entirely at 13, W 126th St
- Report on event
- First Public Screening of 'Harlem Sketches' Sole event referenced by Harlem Film Shows To Mayor's Problems
- Start date / time
- November 10, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Unknown
- Description
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"The investigation of conditions in Harlem by the Mayor's Commission was to have been enlivened yesterday afternoon (Friday) by the showing of Leslie Bain's film, "Harlem Sketches"... The film, completed just one week before the riot, portrays the conditions prevailing in this district... [It will] have its first public showing Sunday at the Finnish Hall, 13 West 126th Street."