Ebony Film Corporation

Ebony Film Corporation was a film company in the United States. It was established in Chicago in 1915 as Historical Feature Film Company.^[1] The business folded in 1919.^[2] It was distributed "exclusively" by General Film Company. The company's films and its depictions of African Americans caused outrage and opposition from African Americans.^[1]

The company produced two-reel Westerns, newsreels, and documentaries.^[3] A Reckless Rover is a 1918 slapstick comedy film that survives in the Library of Congress' collection. The film credits a C. N. David as its director and features a man who does not want to get out of bed oursued by bumbling Keystone Cops style antics. He is put to work in a Chinese laundry and various antics ensue.^[4]

Sam Robinson (actor) starred in several of Ebony's slapstick comedy films. J. Luther Pollard was credited as a producer.

One of the company's advertisements listed its film offerings and teased the coming of E. K. Means "Good Luck in Old Clothes" story ftom the Tickfall Tales.

Filmography

The Shooting Star (1915)
Two Knights of Vaudeville (1915),^[5] extant
Spying the Spy (1915), an extant detective comedy that parodies Birth of a Nation^[2]
Shine Johnson and the Rabbit's Foot (1917)
Wrong All Around (1917)
Dat Blackhand Waitah Man (1917)
A Reckless Rover (1918), extant
Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled (1918), extant
The Bully (1918)
A Black Sherlock Holmes (1918)
Black and Tan Mix Up' (1918)
Some Baby (1918)
A Busted Romance (1918)
Firing the Fakir (1918)
When You Hit, Hit Hard (1918)
Are Working Girls Safe?
'"The Bully
The Porters
The Janitor
A Milk Fed Hero
Busted Romance
Spooks

References

^ ^a ^b http://normanstudios.org/blog/2017/01/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-ebony-films/
^ ^a ^b "Ask Geoffrey: What's the Story with Ebony Films in Logan Square?". WTTW News.
^ Trenholm, Richard. "How Oscar Micheaux defied Hollywood to make the first all-black feature film". CNET.
^ https://www.criterionchannel.com/a-reckless-rover
^ Hoberman, J. (August 10, 2016). "'Pioneers of African-American Cinema': Black Filmmaking Aborning (Published 2016)" – via NYTimes.com.

External links

Ebony Film Company films on IMDb
Ebony Film Corporation at daaracarchive

[norman-1] ttp://normanstudios.org/blog/2017/01/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-ebony-films/

[chic-2] "Ask Geoffrey: What's the Story with Ebony Films in Logan Square?". WTTW News.

[3] Trenholm, Richard. "How Oscar Micheaux defied Hollywood to make the first all-black feature film". CNET.

[4] ttps://www.criterionchannel.com/a-reckless-rover

[5] Hoberman, J. (August 10, 2016). "'Pioneers of African-American Cinema': Black Filmmaking Aborning (Published 2016)" – via NYTimes.com.

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