Redskin is a 1929 feature film with a synchronized score and sound effects that was photographed partially in Technicolor. Color film was used for the scenes taking place on the Indians' land, while black and white was used only in the scenes set in the white man's world. Roughly two-thirds of the film is in color.
The title of the film is not meant to be degrading to Native Americans. It refers to the film's hero, Wing Foot (Richard Dix), who is...
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Redskin is a 1929 feature film with a synchronized score and sound effects that was photographed partially in Technicolor. Color film was used for the scenes taking place on the Indians' land, while black and white was used only in the scenes set in the white man's world. Roughly two-thirds of the film is in color.
The title of the film is not meant to be degrading to Native Americans. It refers to the film's hero, Wing Foot (Richard Dix), who is a Navaho educated in an otherwise all-white school. In the course of the story he experiences prejudice from both the whites (because of his race) and the Navahos (who disown him because of his upbringing). Thus, Wing Foot is looked upon as neither Indian nor white, but simply a "redskin."
Made in the first liberal decade of the twentieth century, the film deals sympathetically with the American Indians in an era of filmmaking that far too many people think was one where Indians were shown as murderous savages. The conservatism of the 1940s...
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