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**

The Millionaire (1927) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Grace Smith
• Laurence Criner 
• Lionel Monagas 
• Cleo Desmond 
• William Edmonson 
• Vera Bracker 
• S.T. Jacks 
• E.G. Tatum 

Storyline
"The Millionaire" deals with the adventures of Pelham Gustry, a Negro Soldier of Fortune; a mans who, as a youth, possessed great initiative and a definite objective, hies himself far from the haunts of his race—thousands of miles away to South America. There, upon the wild, billowy plains of The Argentine, he becomes a sort of "Wild Bull Of The Pampas." Fifteen years fly by—and, having amassed a huge fortune, he returns to America, his heart anxious and hungry for that most infinite of all things—women! In New York, he meets Celia Wellington, the siren—but unworthy creature; the concubine of the "Lizard," most notorious underworld character in all New York, who, in league with Brock, king of the underworld, seek to inveigle him into marriage with the vampire. What follows makes up the story on chock full of action, thrills, romance and intrigue until it will keep you grasping the seat and catching your breath in a never ending stem of excitement and interest. 

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

A Son of Satan (1924) [Lost Film]

The Pittsburgh Courier

Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Sat, Apr 07, 1923 · Page 12

Starring:

• Andrew Bishop
• Lawrence Chenault 
• Shingzie Howard 
• Edna Morton 
• E.G. Tatum 
• Walter Robertson 
• Dink Stewart 
• Ida Anderson 
• Monte Hawley 

Storyline
Also known as "The Ghost of Tolston's Manor." The story revolves around the experiences of a man going to a haunted house and staying all night because of a bet.

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

Oscar Micheaux Filmography

Here is a comprehensive list of films from African American pioneer filmmaker, Oscar Micheaux.

Filmography:

• 1948 - The Betrayal
• 1940 - The Notorious Elinor Lee
• 1939 - Birthright
• 1939 - Lying Lips
• 1938 - God's Step Children
• 1938 - Swing!
• 1937 - Underworld
• 1935 - Murder in Harlem (uncredited)
• 1935 - Temptation
• 1934 - Harlem After Midnight
• 1933 - Phantom of Kenwood
• 1932 - Black Magic
• 1932 - Ten Minutes to Live
• 1932 - Veiled Aristocrats
• 1932 - The Girl from Chicago
• 1931 - The Exile
• 1931 - The Darktown Revue (Short)
• 1930 - Easy Street
• 1930 - A Daughter of the Congo
• 1929 - Wages of Sin
• 1928 - When Men Betray
• 1928 - Thirty Years Later
• 1927 - The Broken Violin
• 1927 - The House Behind the Cedars
• 1927 - The Millionaire
• 1927 - The Spider's Web
• 1926 - The Conjure Woman
• 1926 - The Devil's Disciple
• 1925 - Marcus Garland
• 1925 - Body and Soul
• 1924 - A Son of Satan
• 1924 - Birthright
• 1923 - The Virgin of Seminole
• 1923 - Deceit
• 1922 - Uncle Jasper's Will
• 1922 - The Dungeon
• 1921 - The Hypocrite
• 1921 - The Gunsaulus Mystery
• 1920 - The Symbol of the Unconquered
• 1920 - The Brute
• 1920 - Within Our Gates
• 1919 - The Homesteader

The Devil's Disciple (1925) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Evelyn Preer
• Lawrence Chenault 
• Edward Thompson
• Percy Verwayan
  

Storyline
An Oscar Micheaux film. Aileen Kennibrew, a charming and beautiful girl calls on one Richard Ellis, a motion picture producer, who is impressed by her modesty, refined personality and striking carriage and is persuaded to "try" her out in the movies. She makes good, and altho' elevated after a few pictures to stardom, becomes obsessed with an overwhelming desire to go on the stage. Finally securing a part with a dramatic stock company, she fall in love with a character man, who, unknown to her, is of degenerate character. Giving him all her love, however, she sets out to reform him with the usual result—but that's the story!

A motion picture that every young girl ought to see, as it, among other things, points out with great force and conviction, the error o vain love and shows how easily any attractive girl may be ruined by failure to exercises normal restraint. 

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

The Dungeon (1922) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• William Fountaine
• Shingzie Howard 
• J. Kenneth Goodman 
• William Crowell 
• Earle Browne Cook 
• Blanche Thompson

Storyline
An Oscar Micheaux film. Myrtle Downing, a beautiful young lady, is engaged to Stephen Cameron, a young lawyer. One morning she awakens to find out that she is married to "Gyp" Lassiter, a notorious crook and Cameron's worst enemy. She later discovers that "Gyp" is a bigamist, a man with many wives, all of whom he murdered when they tried to expose him. "Gyp," having political aspirations, plots a permit residential segregation in exchange for a Congressional seat. Myrtle overhears the plot and tried to escape and warn her people, but "Gyp" catches and locks her in a room. However, she escapes and exposes her husband. "Gyp," enraged at his wife's actions, sets out to murder her. He catches her and locks her in the dungeon. Cameron leans of her danger and proceeds to rescue her. 

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

 

Wages of Sin (1929) [Lost Film]

 

Starring:

• Lorenzo Tucker
• William A. Clayton Jr. 
• Kathleen Noisette
• Alice B. Russell

Storyline
An Oscar Micheaux film. The tragic story of two brothers. Winston, the eldest, and J. Lee, the youngest. Sworn to take care of his younger brother at the request of his mother on her death bed. Winston soon regrets his promise. Winston hires his brother, who immediately begins to steal from the company. Winston eventually fires his brother, goes away, falls in love, returns home only to weaken and rehire his brother. J. Lee continues to ruin the company, but as usual everything ends well.

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

The Brute (1920) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Evelyn Preer
• Sam Langford
• Lawrence Chenault 
• Laura Bowman 
• Flo Clements 
• A.B. DeComathiere
• Susie Sutton 
• Mattie Edwards 
• Alice Gorgas 
• E.G. Tatum

Storyline
Directed by Oscar Micheaux. The story is of a beautiful and tender girl in the clutches of a shrewd gambler and boss of the underworld where the creed is "to make a woman love you, knock her down." Sam Langford, the boxer, battles against lynching in the South in this Micheaux melodrama which was shut down by Southern police. Evelyn Peer is the beautiful girl who falls into the clutches of the underworld brute.  

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

 

The Homesteader (1919) [Lost Film]

The  Holton Signal (Holton, Kansas, United States of America) · 13 Mar, 1919

The  Holton Signal (Holton, Kansas, United States of America) · 13 Mar  1919

The Wichita Beacon (Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States of America)  8 Mar, 1919

Starring:

• Charles D. Lucas 
• Evelyn Preer
• Iris Hall
• Inez Smith 
• Vernon S. Duncan 
• Charles R. Moore 
• Trevy Woods 
• William George

Storyline
Agnes Stewart (Iris Hall), a Scottish girl who has come to South Dakota with her father, takes refuge in an isolated house during a blizzard. Hearing cries outside, she rescues Jean Baptiste (Charles D. Lucas), a black man who was in danger of freezing to death. Baptiste, who owns the house, falls in love with Agnes but despairs of overcoming the social barriers that prevent their union. He returns East to his people and marries Orlean (Evelyn Preer), the daughter of preacher N. Justine McCarthy (Vernon S. Duncan), a vain man who soon takes offense at Baptiste's refusal to praise him. Enlisting the aid of Orlean's sister Ethel (Inez Smith) and brother-in-law Glavis, McCarthy (Trevy Woods) begins a campaign of persecution against Baptiste that Orlean is too weak-willed to battle. Finally Orlean goes insane, kills her father, and commits suicide. Baptiste returns to South Dakota and meets Agnes, who has discovered that she is really black. The two find happiness together at last.

This 1919 silent drama was based from the novel The Homesteader by author Oscar Micheaux and also directed by him. It is believed to be the first feature-length film made with a black cast and crew, for a black audience, and thus the first example of a race movie, which makes it all the more tragic for fans of silent cinema that The Homesteader still remains a lost silent film.

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

The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Evelyn Preer 
• Edward R. Abrams
• Lawrence Chenault
• Louis De Bulger 
• E.G. Tatum 
• Mattie Wilkes 
• Bessie Bearden 
• Ethel Williams

Storyline
The body of Myrtle Gunsaulus, a young African-American girl, is discovered in the basement of a New York City factory. Arthur Gilpin, the African-American janitor who discovered the body, is arrested and charged with her murder.

Arthur’s sister Ida May (Evelyn Preer) contacts her former boyfriend, the attorney Sidney Wyeth (Lawrence Chenault), to defend Gilpin in court. During the trial, Wyeth redirects attention for the murder away from Gilpin to Anthony Brisbane, a white man with a history of sexual deviancy. Gilpin is exonerated while Brisbane is revealed as Myrtle Gunsaulus's killer 

Information (wiki)
Oscar Micheaux, the most prolific African-American filmmaker of the race film genre, had previously addressed the issue of violence by whites against blacks in his 1920 feature Within Our Gates, which aroused controversy. That film’s storyline, which included a portrayal of racial lynching and the sexual attack by a white man against a black woman, resulted in censorship rulings in Atlanta and other major cities throughout the U.S.

Micheaux tackled another controversial subject with his 1921 The Gunsaulus Mystery. The plot was based on the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan and the trial of Leo Frank. After an African American was first interrogated, police attention turned to Frank, the Jewish-American manager of the factory. He was prosecuted and convicted of the crime. After appeals had failed, he received commutation of his death sentence, but Frank was kidnapped and lynched on August 17, 1915.

Micheaux shot The Gunsaulus Mystery at the Estee Studios in New York City and distributed the film through his Micheaux Film Corporation. Evelyn Preer, the star of Within Our Gates, also starred in this production.

Micheaux revisited the subject again in 1935 with a sound remake, which was released under the titles Murder in Harlem (a.k.a Lem Hawkins' Confession). Especially in this version, Micheaux used the conventions of the detective story to introduce differing narratives and rework the binary nature of the trial, in which an African-American man and Jewish-American man had testified against each other.

No print of The Gunsaulus Mystery is known to exist in any archive or private collection, and it is considered to be a lost film. Events of the Mary Phagan murder would be covered in detail in the lengthy 1988 four-hour TV miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan. 

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

 

Body and Soul (1925)

Starring: 

• Paul Robeson 
• Marshall Rogers
• Lawrence Chenault
• Julia Theresa Russell 
• Mercedes Gilbert 

 
Storyline
Just as he was forging a career for himself on Broadway, Paul Robeson (The Emperor Jones, All God's Chullin Got Wings) appeared in this film by the enterprising Oscar Micheaux. No other film in the director's career so vividly represented his cynical view of clergymen as greedy manipulators of the vulnerable. Robeson stars as twin brothers, on a Bible-thumping, alcohol-sipping, sexually-predatory minister and the other an ordinary working man, both vying for affection of a young woman who is trying to abide by the misguided wishes of her devout mother.