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Ebony Film Corporation was a film company established in Chicago in 1915 as Historical Feature Film Company. Its films were distributed "exclusively" by
General Film Company The General Film Company was a motion picture distribution company in the United States. Between 1909 and 1920, the company distributed almost 12,000 silent era motion pictures. Formation The General Film Company was formed by the Motion Pictu ...
. The company's films and its depictions of African Americans caused outrage and opposition from African Americans. The company used a logo of a monkey in
blackface Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used predominantly by non-Black people to portray a caricature of a Black person. In the United States, the practice became common during the 19th century and contributed to the spread of racial stereo ...
. The business folded in 1919. The company produced two-reel Westerns, newsreels, and documentaries as well as several short comedy films with African American casts depicting degrading racial stereotypes. '' A Reckless Rover'' is a 1918 slapstick comedy film that survives in the Library of Congress' collection. The film credits C. N. David as its director and features a man who does not want to get out of bed pursued by bumbling Keystone Cops style antics. He is put to work in a Chinese laundry and various antics ensue. Sam Robinson starred in several of Ebony's slapstick comedy films. Luther J. Pollard was credited as a producer. One of the company's advertisements listed its film offerings and teased the coming of a film adaptation of
Eldred Kurtz Means Eldred Kurtz Means (March 11, 1878 – February 19, 1957) was an American Methodist Episcopal clergyman, famed public speaker, and author. A white man, he wrote fictional stories about African/African American characters who lived in an area of Lo ...
' story "Good Luck in Old Clothes" s from the Tickfall Tales series. The film was produced.


Filmography

*''The Shooting Star'' (1915) *'' Two Knights of Vaudeville'' (1915), extant *'' Spying the Spy'' (1915), an extant detective comedy that parodies '' The Birth of a Nation'' *'' 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?'' (1918) *''The Porters'' *''The Janitor'' *''A Milk Fed Hero'' (1918) *''Busted Romance'' (1918) *''Spooks'' (1917)


See also

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Lincoln Motion Picture Company The Lincoln Motion Picture Company was an American film production company founded in 1916 by Noble Johnson and George Perry Johnson. Noble Johnson was president of the company, and the secretary was actor Clarence A. Brooks. Dr. James T. Smith ...
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REOL Productions REOL Productions Corporation was a film production company in New York City from 1921 until 1924 during the silent film era. It released ten films for African American audiences. The company promoted its films by noting they were adaptations of wor ...


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Ebony Film Company films
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at daaracarchive Film production companies of the United States