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of years. Black people of Africa had been captured and sold to the farms and plantations of America. Since black people entered the American continent, the identity of them was slave. Black people were socially disadvantaged, and were considered the opposite of white people. In addition, because of the gap of language, the conflict of religious belief and the imperfection of education, the blacks lost their discourse power for about one hundred years, even in American which claims to be liberal, democratic and equal. From the birth of movie to the World War II, black images of Hollywood mainstream films were uglified optionally and the living condition of them was dodged deliberately. According to Paul Gormely (57), the common characteristics of the African-American film at the beginning of 20 century were the images of the violent and uncontrollable lives of black males. The films of that time were the propaganda of racial discrimination.
　　　By the influence of literature, the film called Uncle Tom’s Cabin which is based on Stowe’s famous novel has made “Tom” become a classic black image in American film. The basic quality of Tom is simple, integrity, loyalty. He dedicated himself to his white master. In the history of world film, Uncle Tom’s Cabin has been repeatedly adapted for movies. Other films with such black image are For Master’s Sake (1911), The Debt (1912), In Slavery Days (1912), etc. This kind of movies shaped quite a lot of black slaves of Tom type, who are extremely loyal to their masters, and drastically exaggerated the plot, believed that black people are born slaves and must be loyal to whites. The different between black slaves is only whether the master is good or bad, and according to this, to get a better or worse treatment. The aim to shape those images of good master and good servant is to disrupt the revolt of the blacks.
　　During the World War I, American shot a film with strong racial discrimination, namely The Birth of the Nation which is directed by so called “the father of the American film” D.W.Griffith. “This film portrayed blacks as unquestioning slaves and ignorant criminals, who is specialized in murder, robbery and rape......whereas Ku Klux Klan, the ancestor of secret police, has been depicted as an army made up of honest American people.” This film especially stressed the figure of “evil blacks”, tremendously exaggerated the fear of the whites caused by the blacks. Therefore, the whites get a heroism-like reason that the aim of persecuting the blacks is to purify the society and to prevent white women from being infringed by them. Since the film successfully catered to the prevailing sentiment of racism, its sales performance was second to none. This film had been showed for a long time, therefore, the racial discrimination of it had been propagandized for years. Meanwhile, after this movie, black images in films had been setted as the representative of barbaric, evil and erotic.