Mr. Adam's Bomb
Father dances to Jazz in the kitchen with the maid, his family won't tolerate his behaviour anymore. And now he has to deal with Uncle Adam's strange antics.
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The film was made by "Sepia Productions" which company sought in part to present images of African Americans not seen in white-produced movies. The plot of this short film is that the upstairs border, Adam Jones, has been seen sneaking in the house late at night with round packages, which starts the rumor that he's building an atom bomb in his room. There's going to be a party at the house that night & Johnson makes sure his police detective friend is invited, so he can have a chance to investigate the possiblity of there being a bomb in the house.
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Mr. Adam's Bomb (1949) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Eddie Green
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