We Work Again

We Work Again — Plot

The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized depiction of life in a segregated society. The highlight, by far, is rare footage of Orson Welles’s “Voodoo Macbeth,” produced in 1935 for the New York Negro Unit of the WPA’s Federal Theatre Project.

• Release date
• September 5, 1937
• Runtime
• 15 min
• Genres
• Documentary

We Work Again — Cast

E

Eric Burroughs Hecate Lawrence Chenault Doctor

A

Alma Dickson The Duchess

M

Maurice Ellis Macbeth