Black and White is a 1932 Soviet animated short film directed by
Ivan Ivanov-Vano and
Leonid Amalrik.
The film addresses issues of
racism in the Southern United States sugar industry. Themes of racial injustice, racial violence, working-class solidarity dominate the film. It depicts black men working in a field, walking in chains, sitting behind bars, and being executed in an electric chair. In most scenes, a white authority figure is seen whipping or guarding the men. The last image of the film is
Vladimir Lenin's last name. The soundtrack of the film is the traditional
Negro spiritual entitled "
Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child".