Making a color transparent in many layers

I'm using Photoshop Elements 5.0
I want to create an animated gif using many layers of jpegs. Each layer is a picture of the earth (round) surrounded by the color black to the edge of the jpeg (square). However, I would like to make the outer border of black the transparent color.
How can I easily make the color black the transparent color in all the layers of the gif, such that when the globe rotates on a white page the black is transparent?
Thanks,
Ken

> Is there a way to do more than one layer at a time
Assuming the area is identical in shape and location, then Don has given you the answer. Otherwise no.
I just realised that I'm helping someone with an animated GIF again. And I am driven mad by Web pages which include the darned things...

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