Set in Duke Ellington’s townhouse on a summer evening in 1972, Once Upon a Time in Harlem follows four hours of conversation, laughter, and critique between some of the Harlem Renaissance’s most prominent artists, writers, and icons. The newly restored project was shot on 16mm film by renowned filmmaker William Greaves, and completed fifty years later by Greaves’ son David. It functions as a living archive of one of the most important artistic movements of that time period,