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 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 The Call of His People was an adaptation of Aubrey 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]

Filmography

See also

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. ^ Petersen, Christina G. (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. JSTOR 25165484. S2CID 193192040.
  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. ^ a b "REOL Productions". Norman Studios.
  6. ^ "Reol Productions film at Lafayette". The New York Age. May 21, 1921. p. 6 – via newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Reol Productions". Black Cinema Connection. 12 July 2020.
  8. ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
  9. ^ "The Secret Sorrow". November 9, 1921 – via memory.loc.gov.
  10. ^ "The Simp". Archived from the original on September 29, 2022.
  11. ^ "Easy Money (1922) [Lost Film]".

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