Just a reminder folks...Oscar Michaeux and The Johnson brothers (Noble and George) weren’t the only filmmakers making race films during the silent film era.There was also The Colored Players Film Corporation based in Philadelphia, which was created by a former black vaudevillian Sherman Dudley (who wanted to make “films free of black stereotypes”)and a white theater owner named David Starkman. The company made four films from 1926 to 1929.However, only two of the four still exist today: Ten Nights in a Barroom, a black cast film version of a very popular anti-drinking play of the day, and The Scar of Shame.It is Shame that has endured, not only because it’s one of the most...
- 9/3/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Oscar Michaeux and The Johnson brothers (Noble and George) weren’t the only filmmakers making race films during the silent film era.There was also The Colored Players Film Corporation based in Philadelphia, which was created by a former black vaudevillian Sherman Dudley (who wanted to make “films free of black stereotypes”)and a white theater owner named David Starkman. The company made four films from 1926 to 1929.However, only two of the four still exist today: Ten Nights in a Barroom, a black cast film version of a very popular anti-drinking play of the day, and The Scar of Shame.It is Shame that has endured, not only because it’s one of the most technically...
- 8/26/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
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