Yamekraw (1930)

Starring:

• Louise Cook
• Hugo Mariani
• Jimmy Mordecai
• Margaret Simms

Storyline

A picturization of a jazz symphony. This short is an impressionistic expression of the moods and emotions of the Negro. A vignette of black life. The dilemma surrounding the move from country to city, leaving the security of the known for the uncertain promise of opportunity ahead.

A Daughter of the Congo (1930) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Kathleen Noisette
• Lorenzo Tucker 
• Salem Tutt Whitney 
• Willor Lee Guilford 
• Roland C. Irving 
• Joe Byrd 
• Alice B. Russell

Storyline
The central character is Lupelta, a beautiful mulatto girl who has been stolen as a baby and brought up among the savages of the jungle. The story opens with Lupelta on her way to the village to marry the tribal chief. She has paused to bathe in a brook when she is surrounded, captured ad made a prisoner of slave hunters. In the meantime, Captain Paul Dale, colored U.S. Army, and his first lieutenant have been sent by their government to operate a constabulary, and are on a reconnaissance. They encounter the slave hunters and promptly take their prisoners and rescues Lupelta. She is taken to a mission school where she succumbs to learning and soon becomes a popular maid in spite of her frequent inclination to revert to the wild life of the jungle.  

**This film is considered lost until notified otherwise**

Ol' King Cotton (1930)

Starring:

• George Dewey Washington

Storyline
George is a shiftless father and husband, who lets his wife and old mother in law do all the work at his tumbledown farm, preferring to sleep under a tree. His wife finally threatens him into finding a job moving cartons in a warehouse. 

Georgia Rose (1930) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Clarence Brooks
• Irene Wilson 
• Evelyn Preer 
• Roberta Hyson 
• Allegretti Anderson 
• Edward Thompson 
• Webb King 
• Spencer Williams 
• Dora Dean 
• E.C. Dyer

Storyline
This picture was filmed by Harry Gant, former cameraman with the Lincoln Motion Picture Company. This story is about a minister's attempt to move his flock and daughter from Georgia to better farming land in the Midwest. While boarding up with a family, the minister's daughter is smitten by the love bug and led to corruption by her new lover's brother. Of course, she is saved in the nick of time by her new lover and forgiven by her father. 

**This film is considered lost until notified otherwise**

Borderline (1930)

Starring:

• Paul Robeson
• Eslanda Robeson 
• Hilda Doolittle
• Gavin Arthur

Storyline
Adah, a black woman, has an affair with Thorne, a white man, much to the dismay of some of the prejudiced townsfolk and Thorne's wife, Astrid. Adah attempts a reconciliation with her man, Pete, but eventually leaves him and the town. Meanwhile, Astrid goes mad and cuts Thorne's face and arm with a knife, but then mysteriously dies. Thorne is tried but acquitted. Because of the events, the mayor sends Pete a letter asking him to leave town for the good of all concerned.