The Broken Earth

The Broken Earth
Directed byRoman Freulich
StarringClarence Muse
Production
company
Continental Pictures
Release date
  • 1939 (1939)
CountryUnited States

The Broken Earth is an American film written and directed by Roman Freulich in 1939[dubious – discuss]. The 11-minute short film stars Clarence Muse as a sharecropper and widower who plows his farm and tries to care for a sick son, pleading and praying for divine intervention. The film includes a soundtrack of negro spirituals.

Freulich was a photographer who immigrated from Poland. He shot movie stills and glamour shots, along with shooting the film with dramatic angels.[dead link] The film is extant.

Muse owned a ranch that was used as a filmmaking location.

The Southern Methodist University Libraries have the film in their collection The film was screened in 2007 and discussed by Morgan State University professor Thomas Cripps.

References

  1. ↑ "Black Cast Films | UC Berkeley Library". www.lib.berkeley.edu.
  2. ↑ "MoMA Commemorates the Great Migration in Film :: IRAAA". iraaa.museum.hamptonu.edu.
  3. 1 2 Kaltenbach, Chris (February 16, 2007). "Drumming up interest in 'Zebra Kids'". baltimoresun.com.
  4. ↑ "The Black Experience from L.A. Auteurs" (PDF). Curated by Donna Mungen. 1994.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ↑ "Film Titles and Descriptions – SMU". www.smu.edu.