Harlem Rides the Range: Museum Object and Cultural History
Harlem Rides the Range: Date: 1939. Directed by: Richard C. Kahn, American, 1897 - 1960. Written by: Spencer Williams, American, 1893-1969.
The object in the museum catalogue
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.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1939
- Directed by: Richard C. Kahn, American, 1897 - 1960
- Written by: Spencer Williams, American, 1893-1969
- Written by: Flournoy Miller, American, 1885 - 1971
- Produced by: Alfred N. Sack, American, 1898 - 1969
- Produced by: Richard C. Kahn, American, 1897 - 1960
- Distributed by: Sack Amusement Enterprises, American, 1920 - 1979
- Subject of: Herb Jeffries, American, 1913 - 2014
- Subject of: Lucius Brooks, American, 1911 - 1999
- Type: sound films
- Type: black-and-white films (visual works)
- Type: release prints (motion pictures)
- Type: feature films
- Type: 16mm (photographic film size)
- Medium: acetate film
- Dimensions: Duration: 58 Minutes
- Dimensions: Length (Film Reel 1): 1100 Feet
- Dimensions: 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
- Topic: African American
- Topic: American West
- Topic: Business
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Race films
- Topic: Western films
- Object number: 2015.167.9.1ab
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Randall and Sam Nieman
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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