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]

Advertisement in the Exhibitors Herald, June 29, 1918

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

See also

References
  1. http://normanstudios.org/blog/2017/01/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-ebony-films/
  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. https://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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