Hunter Haynes

Hunter C. Haynes (1867 – January 1, 1918) was an innovator of strops to sharpen razor blades, founded a barbershop supply company, and was a film producer and film company founder. His parents had been enslaved for part of their lives. He established Haynes Photoplay Company after working as a producer at the white-owned Afro-American Film Company. He was lauded as a Black filmmaker.

Afflicted with tuberculosis, he resided in Saranac, New York to recuperate but died on New Year's Day 1918. He was buried in his hometown of Selma, Alabama.

Filmography

 * Uncle Remus' First Visit to New York (1914)