One Large Evening, also known as A Night in Coontown, is a 1914 short American film. It was produced by Hunter Haynes. A short filmed in black and white, Larry Richards describes it as offensive with derogatory stereotypes of blacks. It is set in Harlem.
Lester Walton wrote about how the film was retitled for white audiences.
It was an Afro-American Film Company production. The film Mandy's Choice followed.
Cast
- Charles Sidney Gilpin
- Marie Young
- Leon Williams
- Sara Green Byrd
- Anthony Byrd
- Eva Johnson
References
- Lupack, Barbara Tepa (November 6, 2023). "The Othering of Women in Silent Film: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts". Lexington Books – via Google Books.
- Richards, Larry (September 17, 2015). "African American Films Through 1959: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography". McFarland – via Google Books.
- Massood, Paula J. (January 22, 2013). "Making a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film". Rutgers University Press – via Google Books.
- Cripps, Thomas (February 3, 1977). "Slow Fade to Black". Oxford University Press – via Google Books.
- Massood, Paula J. (January 22, 2013). "Making a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film". Rutgers University Press – via Google Books.
- Field, Allyson Nadia (May 22, 2015). "Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity". Duke University Press – via Google Books.
- Sampson, Henry T. (November 21, 1995). "Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films". Scarecrow Press – via Google Books.
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