Ebony Film Corporation was a film company established in Chicago in 1915 as Historical Feature Film Company.[1] Its films were 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 used a logo of a monkey in blackface.[2] The business folded in 1919.[3]
The company produced two-reel Westerns, newsreels, and documentaries[4] 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.[5]Sam Robinson starred in several of Ebony's slapstick comedy films. Luther J. Pollard was credited as a producer.[6][7]
One of the company's advertisements listed its film offerings and teased the coming of a film adaptation of Eldred Kurtz Means' story "Good Luck in Old Clothes" s from the Tickfall Tales series.[8] The film was produced.[9]
^ abHemann, Mitch (17 January 2017). "The Rise and Fall of Ebony Films". Norman Studios. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
^Waterman, Richard W. (9 October 2019). "The dark side of the farce: racism in early cinema, 1894–1915". Politics, Groups, and Identities. Informa UK Limited. 9 (4): 784–806. doi:10.1080/21565503.2019.1674670. ISSN 2156-5503. S2CID 214140441.
^ ab"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.
^Hoberman, J. (August 10, 2016). "'Pioneers of African-American Cinema': Black Filmmaking Aborning (Published 2016)". The New York Times.
^"Chicago Film Office — Movies Filmed in Chicago".
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