Reflections, Perceptions and Misconceptions of Black Culture in Film
Release Date: 7/24/1922 Genre: Drama Director: Unknown Studio(s): Reol Productions Corp. Running Time: Unknown Cast: Edna Morton, Lawrence Chenault, George Edward Brown, Daisy Martin, Mabel Young, Sam Cook, Edward Williams. Synopsis: Guy Rogers, the son of a well-known publisher, sets out to prove his father’s racist critics wrong by putting Booker T. Washington’s philosophy into…
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Release Date: 8/19/1922 Genre: Drama Director: Unknown Studio(s): Reol Production Corp. Running Time: Unknown Silent Black & White Cast: Edna Morton, G. Edward Brown, Lawrence Chenault, Walter Thomas, Bob Slater, Orma Crosby. Synopsis: Paul Jackson, a black research chemist with a drug company, is close to success in his attempt to develop a chemical substitute for…
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Release Date: 3/29/1922 Genre: Drama Rating: NR Director: Unknown Studio(s): Reol Productions Corp. Silent Black & White Cast: Sherman H. Dudley (Andy Simpson), Edna Morton (Margie Watkins), H. L. Pryor, Inez Clough, Alex K. Shannon, Percy Verwayen. Synopsis: Andy Simpson, constable, blacksmith and all-round mechanic of Millbrook, a thrifty little southern town, is looked upon as…
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Details Release Date: 10/1/1921 Genre: Drama Rating: N/A Studio: Reol Productions Corp. Writer: S. C. Brown Black & White Silent Cast George Edward Brown, Percy Verwayen, Edna Morton, Lawrence Chenault, Inez Clough, Ida Anderson Synopsis Anne Morgan, a poverty-stricken woman decides to give up one of her two sons to a prominent doctor willing to…
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Release Date: 8/21/21 Genre: Drama Rating: NR Director: J.M. Simms Studio: Progress Picture Association Running Time: 75 mins. B&W Silent Cast: John Cobb, Regina Cohee, Dr. A. Porter Davis, Lenore Jones, Alonzo Nixon, Regina Taylor Details: According to information in the George P. Johnson Collection at the UCLA Special Collections Library, this was the first…
Read MoreRelease Date: 1919 Genre: Action Black & White Silent Studio(s): Norman Film Manufacturing Company Running Time: 50 mins. Cast: Jack Austin, Louise Dunbar, Steve Reynolds, Robert A. Stuart Story: “The plot deals with the eternal triangle, two men in love with one girl, but the undercurrents bring in the interesting factor of two rival railroads…
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