All-American News

All-American News was a film production company in the U.S. bringing war propaganda newsreels and entertainment films to African American audiences.

Emmanuel M. Glucksman was a film industry veteran who produced All-American News films for African American audiences. He was paired with young African American filmmaker William D. Alexander, who worked on the newsreel production team, narrated, and did interviews, and Claude Barnett, an experienced journalist who also helped produce the films. Josh Binney directed some of the films.

The Library of Congress has a collection of All-American newsreels and films.

Chicago After Dark
Chicago After Dark is a 23 minute American comedy film from 1946. It was directed by Josh Binney. A poster for the film advertised it as "An All-American Streamlined Feature" with "Lollypop Jones and a cast of all colored stars." The Museum of the Moving Image has a lobby card from the film. It was an All-American News production.

The film is part of the Black Film Center collection at Indiana University. In 2000, Chicago After Dark featured at the Harlem Week Black Film Festival; according to the festival, it was the film's first showing in forty years. The plot description read, "A lady escapes from the 'nut' house in this comedy classic."


 * Cast
 * Lollypop Jones
 * Allen McMillen
 * Artie Belle McGinty
 * Tops & Wilda (Thomas Lee and Wilda Crawford)
 * Edgar Lewis Morton
 * James Dunsmore

Lucky Gamblers
Lucky Gamblers is a 1946 American action comedy short film. It was advertised as having an "all-colored cast of stars". It was an All-American News production, directed by Josh Binney.


 * Cast
 * Sybil Lewis (actress)
 * Lollypop Jones
 * J. Augustus Smith

Filmography

 * The Negro Sailor (1945)
 * It Happened in Harlem (1945)
 * Chicago After Dark (1946), "a stream-lined feature"
 * Lucky Gamblers (1946)
 * Midnight Menace (1946)
 * Boarding House Blues (1948)
 * Killer Diller (1948 film) (1948)
 * The Joint is Jumping (1949)