Download or read book Slow Fade to Black written by Thomas Cripps and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slow Fade to Black is a history of US African-American accomplishment in film from the earliest movies through World War II. It explores the growth of discrimination as filmmakers became more and more intrigued with myths of the Old South.