REOL Productions

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REOL Productions Corporation was a film production company in New York City from 1921 until 1924 during the silent film era.[1] It released ten films for African American audiences. The company promoted its films by noting they were adaptations of works by African American authors such as a film version of Paul Laurence Dunbar's 1902 novel The Sport of the Gods. Lafayette Theatre manager Robert Levy (producer) managed the film productions with casts from the Lafayette Players.

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The studio's first release was The Sport of the Gods.

The company's was an adaptation of 's book about passing .[2] Plans developed to adapt Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition but did not come to fruition. The film company went out of business in 1924.

Productions included melodramas, at least one comedy, and two documentaries. It secured a distribution agreement in Philadelphia and Baltimore.[3]

In 2002, the sought out any holders of the company's films for a restoration and preservation project.[4]

The Simp[]

The Simp featured , Inez Clough, , Alex K. Shannon, and Percy Verwayen. [5]

Filmography[]

  • (1921)[6][7]
  • (1921)[8]
  • ,[9] starring George Edward Brown[10]
  • (1922), an adaptation of 's .[6]
  • (1921)
  • (1921)
  • (1922)
  • (1922)
  • (1922)

References[]

  1. ^ Petersen, Christina (December 3, 2008). "The 'Reol' Story: Race Authorship and Consciousness in Robert Levy's Reol Productions, 1921–1926". Film History: An International Journal. 20 (3): 308–324. doi:10.2979/FIL.2008.20.3.308. S2CID 193192040 – via Project MUSE.
  2. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236714236_The_'Reol'_Story_Race_Authorship_and_Consciousness_in_Robert_Levy's_Reol_Productions_1921-1926
  3. ^ "Reol Productions". The Dallas Express. September 10, 1921. p. 1 – via newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "LISTSERV 16.0 - AMIA-L Archives". lsv.uky.edu.
  5. ^ "The Simp".
  6. ^ a b http://normanstudios.org/nsdrc/portfolio/reol-productions/
  7. ^ "Reol Productions film at Lafayette". The New York Age. May 21, 1921. p. 6 – via newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Reol Productions". Black Cinema Connection.
  9. ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
  10. ^ "The Secret Sorrow". November 9, 1921 – via memory.loc.gov.

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