Black and White in Colour (1992)
A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992. Interviewees include: Pearl Connor, Thomas Baptiste, Lenny Henry, Norman Beaton, Horace Ové, Carmen Munroe, and Stuart Hall.
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Stuart Hall
as Narrator / Self
Stuart Henry McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist. In the 1950s Hall was a founder of the influ...
Cy Grant
as Self
Cy Grant was born on November 8, 1919 in Beterverwagting, British Guiana [now Guyana]. He is known for At the Earth's Core (1976), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) and Calypso (1958). He was m...
Kenny Lynch
as Self
Thomas Baptiste
as Self
Thomas Baptiste was born on March 17, 1929 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He was an actor, known for The Wild Geese (1978), The Ipcress File (1965) and for playing Coronation Street's first black char...
Cleo Sylvestre
as Self
Cleopatra Mary Palmer (née Sylvestre; 19 April 1945 – 20 September 2024), known professionally as Cleo Sylvestre, was a British actress. She was the first black woman ever to play a leading role at th...
Linton Kwesi Johnson
as Self
Linton Kwesi Johnson OD (born 24 August 1952), also known as LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet and activist. In 2002, he became the second living poet, and the only black one, to be publi...
Director
Isaac Julien