All-American News

All-American News was a film production company in the U.S. bringing war propaganda newsreels and entertainment films to African American audiences.^[1][2]

Emmanuel M. Glucksman was a film industry veteran who produced All-American News films for African American audiences.^[3] He was paired with young African American filmmaker William D. Alexander, who worked on the newsreel production team, narrated, and did interviews, and Claude Barnett, an experienced journalist who also helped produce the films.^[4] Josh Binney directed some of the films.

The Library of Congress has a collection of All-American newsreels and films.^[5]

Filmography[]

• The Negro Sailor (1945)
• It Happened in Harlem (1945)
• Chicago After Dark (1946), "a stream-lined feature"
• (1946)
• Boarding House Blues (1948)
• Killer Diller (1948 film) (1948)
• The Joint is Jumping (1949)

References[]

Further reading[]

• Fielding, Raymond (2015). The American Newsreel: A Complete History, 1911-1967, 2d ed. McFarland. p. 111. ISBN 978-1-4766-0794-8.
• Otfinoski, Steven (2014). African Americans in the Visual Arts. Infobase Publishing. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-4381-0777-6.
• Wilkman, Jon (2020). Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 136. ISBN 978-1-63557-105-9.
• All-American News at Internet Archive.org
• "New Newsreel". Motion Picture Herald. Quigley Publishing Co. November 14, 1942. p. 9.
• Wiley, Chelsea (October 23, 2018). "Watch This Incredible 1945 Video Of A Tuskegee Airman Returning Home To Columbus From World War 2". Columbus Navigator.
• "All-American News To Make Features". Motion Picture Herald. Quigley Publishing Co. December 21, 1946. p. 40.
• Sampson, Henry T. (1995). Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow press. p. 224. ISBN 0810826054.