The Broken Earth is an American film written and directed by Roman Freulich in 1939. 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. 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
- "Black Cast Films | UC Berkeley Library". www.lib.berkeley.edu.
- "MoMA Commemorates the Great Migration in Film :: IRAAA". iraaa.museum.hamptonu.edu.
- ^ Kaltenbach, Chris (16 February 2007). "Drumming up interest in 'Zebra Kids'". baltimoresun.com.
- "The Black Experience from L.A. Auteurs" (PDF). Curated by Donna Mungen. 1994.
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