US 1983, D, SC, P Julie Dash, C Ahmed El Maanouni, E Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, M Eugene Bohlmann, Cast Lonette McKee, Rosanne Katon, Ned Bellamy, Jack Radar, Print b/w, 16mm, 34 min, engl. OV with german SUB, Women Make Movies, Academy Archive

The time is 1942, a year after Pearl Harbor; the place is National Studios, a fictitious Hollywood motion picture studio. Mignon Duprée, a Black woman studio executive who appears to be white and Ester Jeeter, an African American woman who is the singing voice for a white Hollywood star are forced to come to grips with a society that perpetuates false images as status quo. This highly-acclaimed drama by one of the leading African American women directors follows Mignon's dilemma, Ester's struggle and the use of cinema in wartime Hollywood: three illusions in conflict with reality. (Women Make Movies)