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Showing posts with label race film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label race film. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

The Negro "Lon Chaney" -- February 26, 2025

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Saint Louis Argus , 13-February-1925 Smiling Hate, with an "ALL-STAR COLORED CAST," is a movie I have never heard of. I have nev...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Oscar Micheaux -- Newest File Like Rhinelander Case -- January 28, 2025

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Baltimore Afro-American , 24-January-1925 Oscar Micheaux was a pioneer in producing what were known as race films. This ad says that Balti...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

They Are Subtly Teaching Us That They Are Superior -- May 30, 2024

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Baltimore Afro-American , 02-May-1924 The author of this article hopes that Oscar Micheaux will succeed so that "we may have more col...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Oscar Micheaux -- A Story of the Negro and the South -- April 28, 2024

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Baltimore Afro-American , 18-April-1924 Baltimore's Roosevelt Theater, "Home of Great Pictures," ran this ad in the  Baltimo...
Friday, March 29, 2024

For Colored Only -- March 29, 2024

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Atlanta Constitution , 11-March-1924 Atlanta's Paramount Theater "(For colored only)" was showing a William S Hart movie.  ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

From the Pen of the Mighty Micheaux -- February 28, 2024

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Omaha New Era , 08-February-1924 Oscar Micheaux was a pioneer in producing what were known as race films. 100 years ago this month, his fi...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Stole Tickets; Gets Two Years -- January 27, 2024

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New York Age , 19-January-1924 Oscar Micheaux's film Birthright was based on the novel by Thomas Sigismund Stribling. It played at Har...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

A Knockout Drama in Five Reels -- Something Different -- December 28, 2023

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Pittsburgh Courier , 22-December-1923 The Lincoln Theater in Pittsburgh offered His Great Chance , a race film directed by Ben Strasser. I...
Saturday, November 25, 2023

Two Gun Louis Jordan -- November 25, 2023

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Detroit Tribune , 13-November-1948 Louis Jordan, not the French guy, is one of my favorite singers. Look-Out Sister was a western set on ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Oscar Micheaux Presents His Latest Masterplay -- October 25 2023

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Saint Louis Argus , 12-October-1923 Oscar Micheaux was a pioneer in producing what were known as race films. 100 years ago this month, his...
Friday, September 22, 2023

Edna Morton -- September 22, 2023

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New York Age , 22-September-1923 I couldn't find any posts about race films 100 years ago this month, in September, 1923. Here we have...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Cool! Always Cool! -- August 22, 2023

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Lubbock Avalanche , 03-August-1948 Bills at the Chief Theater in Lubbock, Texas appear to have combined burlesque and movies. O'Voutie...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Written, Acted and Produced by Colored People -- July 20, 2023

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Saint Louis Argus , 27-July-1923 Deceit was Evelyn Preer's first starring role. "The Most Beautiful Colored Actress on the screen...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

The Greatest Negro Photoplay of All Times -- June 21, 2023

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New York Daily News , 24-June-1948 Oscar Micheaux was a pioneer in producing what were known as race films. 75 years ago this month, his l...