J.T.

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A feature film with the title J.T. It consists of two reels of color 16mm polyester film with optical sound. The film opens with a young boy, J.T. Gamble (Kevin Hooks), being chased by boys. While running from the boys, J.T. encounters a police officer, which releases him from the boys' pursuit. In another scene, J.T. is again chased by two boys and flees into an abandoned building, while hiding from the bullies in the building, he finds a cat but leaves it there and heads to school. After school, J.T. returns to the abandoned building looking for the cat and feeds it with food that he took from the cafeteria. The rest of the film chronicles how J.T. nurses the injured cat back to health.

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