God's Trombones (1981)

Name: God's Trombones
Director: Will Vinton
Genre: Animation
Released: 1981-01-01
Duration: 26 min
Cast: James Earl Jones, Dorian Harewood

Animation

Director: Will Vinton

Cast: James Earl Jones, Dorian Harewood

Runtime26 min

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A trilogy of African-American poems that applies artistic interpretation to religious parables.

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God's Trombones (1981), directed by Will Vinton, is a trilogy of African-American poems that applies artistic interpretation to religious parables. While the film has not received widespread critical acclaim, it has been praised for its unique and visually striking animated adaptation of the source material.

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God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a 1927 book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American religious oratory. African-American scholars Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West have identified the collection as one of Johnson's two most notable works, the other being Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.