Subject Topic: Motion picture producers and directors - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Charlotta Bass was the publisher of the California Eagle newspaper from 1912 to 1951, and a civil rights activist. The California Eagle, covering Los Angeles' African-American community, was one of the oldest and longest running African American newspapers.
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Actress Beulah Hall with members of the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, left to right: Clarence Brooks (secretary), Noble Johnson (president), Dudley Brooks (assistant secretary), and Dr. James Smith (treasurer). They are standing in front of a picket fence and a building with wood siding.
Date:: [circa 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Raymond St. Jacques was an actor, director and producer. He was the first African American actor to appear in a regular role on a western series, playing Simon Blake on Rawhide.
Date:: [1970s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Noble Johnson was a character actor in cinema, one of the few African Americans in the field during the studio era. A childhood friend of Lon Chaney, Johnson followed him into the industry in 1915. He was an extra in D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) as a Babylonian soldier. Because of his large size 6'2″, 215 lbs., Johnson was often cast in key character roles representing not just African Americans, but Native Americans, Asians, Arabians, and Pacific Islanders. Johnson founded Lincoln Motion Picture Company, the first American studio that produced “race” films, pictures for African Americans, exclusively, from 1916 to 1923. He continued to work in the sound era, retiring at the age of 69.
Date:: [1915-1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Jessie Terry was a civic leader in the Los Angeles African American community.
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Still from "Gone are the Days!" (aka "Purlie Victorious") with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee in a rural setting carrying boxes.
Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Advertisement in the California Eagle newspaper for the Grand Studio Ball & Movie Classic with a photograph of Clarence Muse. The event was produced by Muse, and held on July 21, 1938 at the Elks Building located at 4016 So. Central Avenue.
Date:: July 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Noble Johnson was a character actor in cinema, one of the few African Americans in the field during the studio era. A childhood friend of Lon Chaney, Johnson followed him into the industry in 1915. He was an extra in D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) as a Babylonian soldier. Because of his large size 6'2″, 215 lbs., Johnson was often cast in key character roles representing not just African Americans, but Native Americans, Asians, Arabians, and Pacific Islanders. Johnson founded Lincoln Motion Picture Company, the first American studio that produced “race” films, pictures for African Americans, exclusively, from 1916 to 1923. He continued to work in the sound era, retiring at the age of 69.
Date:: [circa 1915
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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