Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales

It was thought to be completely lost for many years, but a copy may exist in the archives of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences or elsewhere.

The plotline is not known for certain, but Pryor's biographers David and Joe Henry write that it concerned "a wealthy white man abducted by a group of Black Panther-type militants and put on trial for all the racial crimes in U.S.

In addition to writing and funding the film, Pryor apparently played multiple roles, including a poet and a defense attorney.

[2][4] Mooney, a close friend of Pryor's, would later call the movie "a project conceived and executed in a drug haze."

[2] Spheeris discovered a 30-minute reel of unedited, silent footage in her own archives 35 years later and donated it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

[4] In June 2005, scenes from the film (possibly from the rediscovered footage Spheeris had donated) appeared in a retrospective while Pryor was being honored by the Directors Guild of America.

In 2023, Spheeris told the website Den of Geek that she and Jennifer Lee Pryor were working together to collect all surviving footage from the film, but that the Cosby family was not cooperating with their efforts.