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Fort Lee Black History Month Program: Rare Screening of First All Talking African American Musical "The Exile" Shot in Fort Lee in 1931

Join the Fort Lee Film Commission and Palisade Interstate Park for a very special Black History Month film program and a rare screening of the first all talking African American movie musical shot right here in Fort Lee, NJ! February 16th at 1 p.m. at the Fort Lee Historic Park Museum Theatre off Hudson Terrace and Bruce Reynolds Blvd. The program features a book reading / signing by Grant Harper Reid whose grandfather co-directed "The Exile" with African-American film pioneer Oscar Micheaux.

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