Actually this news about this came out a few weeks ago but it was overlooked, even by me I'm ashamed to say, but it is great news for admirers (like me) of the great Paul Robeson. Six of Robeson's films from the 1930's will be remastered in high definition for release on blu-ray and standard DVD though the Cohen Media Group label The films were originally part of the film collection of the Rohauer Library which owned the rights to some 700 films of Hollywood and foriegn films as well classic garde classics. The library was acquired the by Cohen Media Group and reititled as the Cohen Collection and they plan to eventually restore all the films for future...
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