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About: REOL Productions

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REOL Productions Corporation was a film production company in New York City from 1921 until 1924 during the silent film era. It released ten films for African American audiences. The company promoted its films by noting they were adaptations of works by African American authors such as a film version of Paul Laurence Dunbar's 1902 novel The Sport of the Gods. Lafayette Theatre manager Robert Levy (producer) managed the film productions with casts from the Lafayette Players. The studio's first release was The Sport of the Gods.

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  • REOL Productions Corporation was a film production company in New York City from 1921 until 1924 during the silent film era. It released ten films for African American audiences. The company promoted its films by noting they were adaptations of works by African American authors such as a film version of Paul Laurence Dunbar's 1902 novel The Sport of the Gods. Lafayette Theatre manager Robert Levy (producer) managed the film productions with casts from the Lafayette Players. The studio's first release was The Sport of the Gods. The company's was an adaptation of 's book about passing . Plans developed to adapt Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition but did not come to fruition. The film company went out of business in 1924. Productions included melodramas, at least one comedy, and two documentaries. It secured a distribution agreement in Philadelphia and Baltimore. In 2002, the sought out any holders of the company's films for a restoration and preservation project. (en)
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  • REOL Productions Corporation was a film production company in New York City from 1921 until 1924 during the silent film era. It released ten films for African American audiences. The company promoted its films by noting they were adaptations of works by African American authors such as a film version of Paul Laurence Dunbar's 1902 novel The Sport of the Gods. Lafayette Theatre manager Robert Levy (producer) managed the film productions with casts from the Lafayette Players. The studio's first release was The Sport of the Gods. (en)
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  • REOL Productions (en)
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