Reflections, Perceptions and Misconceptions of Black Culture in Film
Release Date: 1921/1922 Silent Black & White Genre: Western Director: Richard E. Norman Studio(s): Norman Film Manufacturing Company Running Time: 50 mins. Cast: Bill Pickett, Bennie Turpin, Anita Bush, Steve Reynolds Details: The Bull-Dogger was a feature-length Western starring real-life African American cowboy Bill Pickett. An excerpt from the Exhibitor’s Herald, states “A virile story of…
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Release Date: 8/1/1936 Black & White Genre: Drama/Inspirational Director(S): Marc Connelly, William Keighley Studio(s): Warner Bros. Running Time: 93 mins. Cast: Rex Ingram, Oscar Polk, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Frank H. Wilson, George Reed, Abraham Gleaves , Edna Mae Harris, James Fuller. Details: The Green Pastures depicts stories from the Bible as visualized by black characters. …
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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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