The Broken Earth is an American film written and directed by Roman Freulich in 1939. The 11-minute short film stars Clarence Muse as a sharecropper and widower who plows his farm and tries to care for a sick son, pleading and praying for divine intervention.[1] The film includes a soundtrack of negro spirituals.

Freulich was a photographer who immigrated from Poland. He shot movie stills and glamour shots, along with shooting the film with dramatic angels.[2] The film is extant.[3]

Muse owned a ranch that was used as a filmmaking location.[4]

The Southern Methodist University Libraries have the film in their collection[5] The film was screened in 2007 and discussed by Morgan State University professor Thomas Cripps.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Black Cast Films | UC Berkeley Library". www.lib.berkeley.edu.
  2. ↑ "MoMA Commemorates the Great Migration in Film :: IRAAA". iraaa.museum.hamptonu.edu.
  3. 1 2 Kaltenbach, Chris. "Drumming up interest in 'Zebra Kids'". baltimoresun.com.
  4. ↑ http://www.alternativeprojections.com/assets/Article-PDFs/Donna-Mungen-The-Black-Experience.pdf
  5. ↑ "Film Titles and Descriptions – SMU". www.smu.edu.


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