"A compendium of over 3,000 film items from around the world with black themes or subject master or substantial participation by blacks as writers, actors, producers, directors, musicians, animators, or consultants or who even appeared in ancillary or walk-on roles. Klotman sought - but did not always get - the following information for each: film title/series title; narrator/cast; writer, whether screenplay or adaptation; producer, director, studio/company; technical information encompassing film size/color/sound or silent; number of reels/time; date/country or origin; type; distributor/archive; annotation. The approximately 3,000 films are listed alphabetically with the above information, with separate indexes of black performers, author, screenplay writers, producers and directors. It includes not only feature films but also anthropological, avant-garde, experimental and documentary films worldwide." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1323)