Harlem Rides the Range

Object Details

Directed by: Richard C. Kahn, American, 1897 - 1960
Written by: Spencer Williams, American, 1893-1969; Flournoy Miller, American, 1885 - 1971
Produced by: Alfred N. Sack, American, 1898 - 1969; Richard C. Kahn, American, 1897 - 1960
Distributed by: Sack Amusement Enterprises, American, 1920 - 1979
Subject of: Herb Jeffries, American, 1913 - 2014; Lucius Brooks, American, 1911 - 1999; Leonard Christmas, American, 1897 - 1982; Clarence Brooks, American, 1896 - 1969; Artie Young, American, 1915 - 1989; Spencer Williams, American, 1893-1969; Tom Southern, American, 1906 - 1980; Wade Dumas, American, 1905 - 1983; Flournoy Miller, American, 1885 - 1971; John Thomas, American, 1914 - 1981; The Four Tones, American; The Four Blackbirds; Murray's Dude Ranch, American, 1922 - 1960

Description: A 16mm release print of the feature film Harlem Rides the Range. It consists of two reels of positive, black-and-white, 16mm acetate film strips with variable-area optical sound.; In the opening scene, Jim Dennison (Leonard Christmas), a homesteader, is approached by two men, Bradley (Clarence Brooks) and Jim Connors (Tom Southern), for outstanding mortgage. Dennison refuses to pay or acquiesce to giving the men a fifty-percent share of his mine. A fight ensues which leaves Dennison unresponsive. The rest of the film chronicles how a cowboy named Bob (Herb Jeffries) and his sidekick Dusty (Lucius Brooks) assist Mr. Dennison with his financial problems.

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Randall and Sam Nieman

1939

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Type: sound films; black-and-white films (visual works); release prints (motion pictures); feature films; 16mm (photographic film size)

Medium: acetate film
Dimensions: Duration: 58 Minutes; Length (Film Reel 1): 1100 Feet; Length (Film Reel 2): 1100 Feet

Place depicted: Arizona, United States, North and Central America
Place filmed: Sindewinder Valley, Apple Valley, San Bernadino County, California, United States, North and Central America

See more items in: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
Classification: Time-based Media - Moving Images

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Topic: African American; American West; Business; Film; Race films; Western films

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