Ebony Showcase "Chitlin
Circuit Race Film Series" ----1929
thru 1940 (years of research and restoration) (Independent quality ratings) 27
years in the making and constantly researching to perfect. 15 archive quality
DVD's.
Disc 1
(176 min)
1929 21 min The Melancholy Dame quality
rating 9
Spencer Williams (Andy) Evelyn Peer, Edward Thompson, Roberta Hyson
1929 21 min Music Hath harms 9
Spencer Williams, Roberta Hyson
1929 16 min Oft in the Silly Night 9 Evelyn Peer, Edward Thompson, Roberta
Hyson, Spencewr Williams
1929 100
min Hallelujai 10 Nina Mae
McKinney, Daniel Haynes
1929 18 min Black
and Tan 7.6
Duke Ellington, Fredi Washington, Alex Lovejoy
Disc 2 (175 min)
1931 78 min Exile 9 (Micheaux) Micheaux 1st talkie
1931 10 min Hot Biskits 10 (Dixie
Comedies), Spencer Williasms
1931 18 min Dark Town Review 9
(Micheaux) Tim Moore Micheaux 1sst talkie
1932 69 min The Black King 9 A.B.
DeComathiere
Disc 3 (170 min)
1932 11 min Pie Pie Blackbird 8 (Vitaphone)
Nina Mae McKinney, Nicholas
Brothers,
1932 58 min Ten Minuits to Live 10 (Micheaux) A.B.
DeComathiere, Laura Bowman, Lawrence
Chenault
1932 44
min Veiled Aristocrates 9
(Micheaux) Laura Bowman, A.B. DeComathiere, Lorenzo
Tucker
1932 57
min Harlem Is Heaven 7.8 (Lincoln) Bill Robinson, Eubie Blake
Disc 4 (178 min)
1932 71
mi Girl
From Chicago 8 (Micheeaux) Early talkie, some sub titles Carl Mahon, Starr Calloway
1933 21 min Rufus Jones For
President 8.5 (Young Sammy Davis Jr.) Ethel Waters
1933 11 min That's the Spirit 8
(Vitaphone) Noble Sissel, Mantan Moreland
1933 75 min Emperor Jones 9 UK Paul Robeson, Fredi washington
Disc 5 (170 min)
1934 19 min Bubbling
Over 9 Ethel Waters
1934 11 min Hi-De-Ho 9 Cab Calloway
1934 21 min King for a Day 8+ Bill Robinson, Dusty Fletcher
1934 48 min Louisiana 8 Laura Bowman
1935 11 min All Colored Vauderville 8 Nicholas brothers
1935 60 min Broken Strings
8 Clarence Muse, Edward Thompson, Mathew
(Stymie) Beard, Clarence Brooks
Disc 6 (188 min)
Tyler
TX, Intro
1935 96 min Murder
in Harlem 8.5 Clarence brooks, Laura Bowman
1935 88 Min Sanders
of the River 8 (bare Brest dsncers) Paul Robeson
Disc 7 (178 min)
1935 10 min Symphony
in Black 9
Duke Ellington
1936 93 min Green Pastures 10 Rex Ingram, Eddie (Rodchester) Anderson
1936 75 min Song of Freedom 9 Paul Robeson
Disc 8 (170min)
1936 21 min The Black Network 9 Nina Mae McKinney, Nicholas Brothers, Amanda
Randolph (Mama on Amos n Andy)
1937 10 min Barber Shop Blues 8.5
Claud Hopkins
1937 70 min God's
Stepchildren 8
(Micheaux) show was Picketed Laura Bowman, Alex Lovejoy
1937 69 min Dark
Manhattan 8 Ralph
Cooper, Clarence brooks, Nick Stewart (from Amos n Andy)
Disc 9 (156 min)
1937 71 min Big
Fella 9 Paul
Robeson
1937 75 min Jerico 8+ Paul Robeson
1937 10 min Murder in Swingtime 8 Les Hite, June Richmond
Disc 10 (176 min)
1937 24 min The Negro Farmer 8.5 Great Depression
1937 11 min We Work Again
8.5 Great Depression of the 1930s
1938 75 min The
Duke is Tops 8.5 Ralph Cooper, Lena Horne, laurence Criner,
Monty Hawley
1938 66 min Spirit of Youth
8 Joe Louis, Nina Mae McKinney, mantan Morland, Clarence
Muse, Clarence Brooks
Disc 11 (178 min)
1938 69min Swing 9 (Micheaux) Amanda Randolph (from Amos n Andy), Cora
Green, Trixie Smith, Alex Lovejoy
1939 58 min Bronze
Buckaroo 10 Herb Jeffries, Spencer
Williams, Clarence brooks
1939 51 min The Devil's Daughter 9
( 1st in Jamaica ) Nina
Mae McKinney, Ida Jamea
1939 11 min Broken
Earth 9 (Clarence Muse) "Nobody knows the
trouble I've seen'
Disc 12 (171 min)
1939 56 min Harlem Rides the Range 8 Herb Jeffries, Spencer Williams, Clarence
Brooks
1939 69 min Moon Over Harlem 8 Buddy Harris, Cora Green
1939 72 min Lying
Lips 8 (Micheau)
Edna Mae Harris, Amanda Randolph (Amos n Andy)
Disc 13 (146 min)
1939 61
min Way
Down South 10 Clarence Muse (wrote
original story and screenplay)
1939 85 min Paradise
in Harlem 9 (blackface) Edna Mae Harris, Francine Everett, Mamie
Smith, Alex Lovejoy
1929 21 min Framing
of the Shrew 8.5 Spencer
Williams, Roberta Hanson, Evelyn Peer, Edward Thompson
Disc 14 (180 min)
1939 11 min The Negro in Entertainment 8
1939 52 min Straight
to Heaven 8 Nina Mae McKinney, Lorenzo
Tucker (the black Valentino)
1939 52 min Midnight
Shadow 9 Francis Redd, Larence Criner, Ruby Dandridge
1940 65 min Mystery
in Swing 8 Money Hawley
Disc 15 (127 min)
1940 77min Proud Valley 8.5 Paul
Robeson
1940 50 min Gang
War 8 Ralph Cooper, Larence Criner,
Monty Hawley
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