who took priceless footage of African American life in his rural Oklahoma hometown. Motown connections are strong in two of the tides. Detroit-born Herb Jeffries stars in "The Bronze Buckaroo" (1939), one of several films in which he starred as the first black singing cowboy. Jeffries (sometimes billed as Her

nt in Mississippi. (3 p.m. Feb. 18) "The Bronze Buckaroo" (1939. director Richard C. Kahn): The best of several films in which dashing, Detroit-born Herb Jeffries plays a black version of a Gene Autry-style singing cowboy, this time enlisted to locate a girl kidnapped by unscrupulous ranchers. (3 p.m. April 2