All-American News

Film production company

All-American News was a film production company in the U.S. bringing war propaganda newsreels and entertainment films to African American audiences.[1][2]

Emmanuel M. Glucksman was a film industry veteran who produced All-American News films for African American audiences.[3] 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.[4] Josh Binney directed some of the films.

The Library of Congress has a collection of All-American newsreels and films.[5]

## Films[edit]

### Chicago After Dark[edit]

Chicago After Dark is a 23 minute American comedy film from 1946. It was directed by Josh Binney.[6][7] A poster for the film advertised it as "An All-American Streamlined Feature" with "Lollypop Jones and a cast of all colored stars."[6] The Museum of the Moving Image has a lobby card from the film.[8] It was an All-American News production.[9]

The film is part of the Black Film Center collection at Indiana University.[10] 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.[11] The plot description read, "A lady escapes from the 'nut' house in this comedy classic."[11]

Cast

* Lollypop Jones
* Allen McMillen[6]
* Artie Belle McGinty
* Tops & Wilda (Thomas Lee and Wilda Crawford)
* Edgar Lewis Morton
* James Dunsmore[12]

### Lucky Gamblers[edit]

Lucky Gamblers is a 1946 American action comedy short film. It was advertised as having an "all-colored cast of stars".[13] It was an All-American News production, directed by Josh Binney.[14]

Cast

* Sybil Lewis (actress)
* Lollypop Jones[15]
* J. Augustus Smith[15]

## Filmography[edit]

* 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[edit]

1. ^ "All-American News: The First African American Newsreel | Now See Hear!". blogs.loc.gov. February 15, 2019.
2. ^ all american news, inc. "Search results from National Screening Room, Available Online, All American News, Inc". Library of Congress. `{{cite web}}`: `|first=` has generic name (help)
3. ^ "Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.) [WorldCat Identities]".
4. ^ Moon, Spencer; Allen, Linda (November 21, 1997). Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313298301 - via Google Books.
5. ^ all american news, inc. "Search results from National Screening Room, Available Online, All American News, Inc, Newsreels". Library of Congress. `{{cite web}}`: `|first=` has generic name (help)
6. ^ a b c "Chicago after Dark (1946)". BFI.
7. ^ Webb, Graham (July 10, 2020). Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959. McFarland. ISBN 9781476639260 - via Google Books.
8. ^ "Museum of the Moving Image - Collection - Collection Spotlight_Race Movies". 2016-03-21. Archived from the original on 2016-03-21. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
9. ^ Richards, Larry (September 17, 2015). African American Films Through 1959: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography. McFarland. ISBN 9781476610528 - via Google Books.
10. ^ Lupack, Barbara (May 26, 2016). Early Race Filmmaking in America. Routledge. ISBN 9781317434252 - via Google Books.
11. ^ a b "Harlem Week 2000 Black Film Festival". New York Amsterdam News. Vol. 91, no. 32\. August 10, 2000. Retrieved 2022-07-06 - via EBSCO.
12. ^ "Black Films: Paper Print Collection: Guides & Finding Aids (Motion Picture and Television Reading Room, Libraryof Congress)". www.loc.gov.
13. ^ Koszarski, Richard (2021-07-20). "Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance. Columbia University Press. p. 117\. ISBN 978-0-231-55387-2.
14. ^ Webb, Graham (July 13, 2020). Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959. McFarland. ISBN 9781476681184 - via Google Books.
15. ^ a b Sampson, Henry T. (1995). Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films. Scarecrow Press. p. 601\. ISBN 978-0-8108-2605-2.

## Further reading[edit]

* 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.