• Source: 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.
      Emmanuel M. Glucksman was a film industry veteran who produced All-American News films for African American audiences. 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. Josh Binney directed some of the films.
      The Library of Congress has a collection of All-American newsreels and films.


      Films




      = Chicago After Dark

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      Chicago After Dark is a 23 minute American comedy film from 1946. It was directed by Josh Binney. A poster for the film advertised it as "An All-American Streamlined Feature" with "Lollypop Jones and a cast of all colored stars." The Museum of the Moving Image has a lobby card from the film. It was an All-American News production.
      The film is part of the Black Film Center collection at Indiana University. In 2000, Chicago After Dark featured at the Harlem Week Black Film Festival; according to the festival, it was the film's first showing in forty years. The plot description read, "A lady escapes from the 'nut' house in this comedy classic."

      Cast
      Lollypop Jones
      Allen McMillen
      Artie Belle McGinty
      Tops & Wilda (Thomas Lee and Wilda Crawford)
      Edgar Lewis Morton
      James Dunsmore


      = Lucky Gamblers

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      Lucky Gamblers is a 1946 American action comedy short film. It was advertised as having an "all-colored cast of stars". It was an All-American News production, directed by Josh Binney.

      Cast
      Sybil Lewis (actress)
      Lollypop Jones
      J. Augustus Smith


      Filmography


      The Negro Sailor (1945)
      It Happened in Harlem (1945)
      Chicago After Dark (1946), "a stream-lined feature"
      Lucky Gamblers (1946)
      Midnight Menace (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.

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