REOL Productions
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REOL Productions Corporation was a film production company in New York City from 1921 until 1924 during the
Lafayette Players
.
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The studio's first release was The Sport of the Gods.
The company's The Call of His People was an adaptation of Audrey Bowser's book about passing The Man Who Would Be White.[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 Cornell Institute for Digital Collections sought out any holders of the company's films for a restoration and preservation project.[4]
The Simp
The Simp featured
Percy Verwayen
.
[5]
Filmography
- The Burden of Race (1921)[8]
- The Secret Sorrow,[9] starring George Edward Brown[10]
- The Call of His People (1922), an adaptation of Aubrey Bowser's The Man Who would Be White.[6]
- The Jazz Hounds
- The Simp (1921)
- Ties of Blood (1921)
- The Schemers (1922)
- Easy Money (1922), starring Sherman H. Dudley[11]
- Spitfire (1922)
References
- S2CID 193192040– via Project MUSE.
- S2CID 193192040.
- ^ "Reol Productions". The Dallas Express. September 10, 1921. p. 1 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "LISTSERV 16.0 - AMIA-L Archives". lsv.uky.edu.
- ^ "The Simp".
- ^ a b "REOL Productions". Norman Studios.
- ^ "Reol Productions film at Lafayette". The New York Age. May 21, 1921. p. 6 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "Reol Productions". Black Cinema Connection. 12 July 2020.
- ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
- ^ "The Secret Sorrow". November 9, 1921 – via memory.loc.gov.
- ^ "Easy Money (1922) [Lost Film]".