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J. Harrison Edwards was a writer and film director.
He established Franco-Canadian Industrial Film Company to produce "industrial" and educational films.[1] In 1921 he was an organizer of Colored Feature Photoplay Inc.[2]
His film Square Joe was filmed in Harlem with boxers Joe Jeanette[3] and John Lester Johnson among the African American cast.
Charles T. Dazey, who authored In Old Kentucky, wrote the titles and was hired to "inject local color into the text" of the film The Fighting Kentuckians. A Sterling Feature Pictures release, its cast included Thornton Bastion, Irma Harrison, Myra Brooks, Tom Burroughs, Adele Kelly, Colen Chase, Pete Raymond, and May Wick.[4][5]
Filmography
- The Fighting Kentuckians (1920)[6]
- Square Joe[7] (1922)[8][9]
- Love Wins
- Six Episodes of the Hidden Hand[1]
- The Bride (1925), short film
- Playing the Ponies (1925)[10] alt title?
References
- ^ a b "Canadian Moving Picture Digest". 1922.
- ^ Sampson, Henry T. (1995). Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810826052.
- ^ Gilbert, Valerie C. (27 September 2021). Women and Mixed Race Representation in Film: Eight Star Profiles. McFarland. ISBN 9781476644738.
- ^ "Southern Mountaineers Filmography". Southern Mountaineers Filmography. October 17, 2019.
- ^ Connelly, Robert B. (1998). The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36. December Press. ISBN 9780913204368.
- ^ "Forest Leaves". 1921.
- ^ Gilbert, Valerie C. (27 September 2021). Women and Mixed Race Representation in Film: Eight Star Profiles. McFarland. ISBN 9781476644738.
- ^ Richards, Larry (September 17, 2015). African American Films Through 1959: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1052-8 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Record Attendance to See Square Joe" The New York Age June 24, 1922
- ^ "Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures. Part 1, group 2". 1925.