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Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Coon Town Suffragettes
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel / 400 feet
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Mattie Edwards [Mandy Jackson], John Edwards [Sam Jackson]
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Arthur D. Hoteling. / Released 28 February 1914; in a split-reel with Father’s Temper (1914). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [From Lubin promotional materials] Mandy Jackson, a colored wash lady, attends a white suffragette meeting and is affected by their leader, who told her that she was foolish to do all the work and let her lazy husband loaf. Mandy forthwith determines to start a suffragette party among her own people. The party is organized and, with Mandy as their leader, they start out with a determination to raid the saloons and to make their idle husbands get to work. They proudly march into the gin mill and clear the place of all idlers; each suffragette gets her husband and marches him out. The coon police are summoned, but they, too, are soon subdued. The coon husbands are then put to work and the militant colored suffragettes proudly claimed their first victory.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 14 March 1914, page ?] This is a good inspiration and well produced. It is also well acted, considering that the cast is made up of genuine colored people, with John and Mattie Edwards as principals. It is a very comic offering with a good finish. The revolt in coon town of the wives against their husbands and police gives a good finale.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: African-Americans - Suffragettes
Listing updated: 12 February 2024.
References: Barry-Griffith p. 47; Bohn-Light p. 114 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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