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00:00Hi, I'm Cheryl and I'm a filmmaker, no, I'm not really a filmmaker but I have a videotaping
00:14business with my friend Tamara and I work at a video store so I'm working on being a filmmaker.
00:20The problem is I don't know what I want to make a film on. I know it has to be about
00:25black women because our stories have never been told so I've been renting movies, no,
00:30I haven't been renting movies but I get movies from the video store that I work at and I've
00:34taken all these films out from the 30s and 40s with black actresses in them like Hattie
00:39McDaniel and Louise Beavers and in these films, in some of the films, the black actresses
00:46aren't even listed in the credits and I was just totally shocked by that. So in this one
00:51film that came into the store, Plantation Memories, I saw the most beautiful black
00:57mammy named Elsie and I just had to show this so watch.
01:21Sure, I know he is.
01:23Do you really think so Elsie?
01:25Oh yes Mrs. Barber, I know he is. I prayed to God all night long and this morning this little angel told me that he was coming back, back to you.
01:51Her name, the Watermelon Woman. That's right, Watermelon Woman. Is Watermelon Woman her first name, her last name or is it her whole name?
02:03I don't know but Girlfriend has it going on and I think I've figured out what my project is going to be on. I'm going to make a movie about her. I'm going to find out what her real name is, who she was and is, everything I can find out about her.
02:18Because something in her face, something in the way she looks and moves is serious, is interesting and I'm going to just tell you all about it.