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The Gunsaulus Mystery

By: blackcinemaconnection July 12, 2020July 12, 2020

Independent Race FilmsEvelyn Preer, Lawrence Chenault, Lem Hawkins' Confession, Lost Film, Murder in Harlem, Oscar Micheaux, SilentLeave a Comment

Details Year of Release: 1921 Genre: Drama Rating: N/A Runtime: Unknown Black & White Silent Studio: Micheaux Film Corp. Director & Producer: Oscar Micheaux Cast Lawrence Chenault (Anthony Brisbane) Evelyn Preer (Ida May Gilpin) Dick Abrams (Sidney Wyeth) Louis De Bulger (Lem Hawkins) Synopsis Myrtle Gunsaulus, a young African-American girl, is found murdered in the…

Clarence Brooks

By: blackcinemaconnection September 29, 2014

Artist SpotlightA Man's Duty, Absent, Am I Guilty, Broken Strings, By Right of Birth, Dark Manhattan, Georgia Rose, Harlem Rides the Range, Murder in Harlem, Spirt of Youth, The Bronze Buckaroo, The Lincoln Motion Picture Company, Two-Gun Man from Harlem, Up Jumped the Devil2 Comments

(1896-1969) Clarence Brooks was born in San Antonio, Texas in December 1896. In 1915, Brooks along with actor Noble Johnson, Noble’s brother, George Johnson, Dr. James T. Smith, and Dudley A. Brooks formed The Lincoln Motion Picture Company, a company that sought to make films correcting distortions of African American images in motion pictures while also…