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Auction History Result y156 BROKEN EARTH one-sheet movie poster '39 Clarence Muse, all-black cast! Date Sold 2/1/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 28" x 41") (Learn More) The Broken Earth, the 1936 Roman Freulich black African American family relationship religious farming short (about a black farmer in the South working in the fields, and he comes home to find that his young son is dying; he prays to God for salvation for his son, and God answers his prayers and saves his boy; there is background music by the Shaw Ethiopian Choir) starring Clarence Muse. Note that this is a fascinating and important short movie (it is only 11 minutes long). It was directed and written by Roman Freulich, who was born in 1898 in what was then Poland (later part of Czechoslovakia), and he came to the U.S. in 1912 as a teenager. In the very early 1930s, he and his brother Jack became famous still photographers, and they shot many of the most iconic images for the great early sound Universal horror movies, including Frankenstein! The Freulichs were Jewish, and Roman in particular was fascinated with the plight of black African Americans in the U.S., and he conceived this short movie while he was still a major still photographer. He hired Clarence Muse, a well known black actor, to star in it, but everyone else in it were amateurs, and the farming scenes at the beginning showed real farmers plowing the fields. We imagine he intended this movie to be distributed by a major studio (likely Universal), but probably the only one he could get to distribute it was Sack Amusement Enterprises, which distributed all-black films. It was the only movie he made. His brother Jack passed away in 1936, the year this movie was made, but Roman lived until 1974, and had a long and distinguished career. If anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this one-sheet measures 28" x 41". Please do not bid on this poster thinking it is 27" x 41". Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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