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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "white supremacy" (6)

Midwife to the Upper Class (Sage-femme de première classe)

Alice Guy-Blaché (director/lead)
Yvonne Mugnier-Serand (lead)
Germaine Mugnier-Serand (lead)
Gaumont (production)

Language: Silent, released in 1902, month unknown
Minutes: 4

Remake of the 1900 film The Cabbage Fairy (La Fee aux Choux).

Featured elements:

: birthing; fantasy; white supremacy

The Strenuous Life, Or, Anti-Race Suicide

Edwin S. Porter (director)
Edison (production)

Language: Silent, released in Dec 1904
Minutes: 5

A satirical answer to President Teddy Roosevelt's call for Anglo-Saxon women to keep up with the birth rate of ethnic minorities, or risk 'race suicide'. Mike Judge's 2006 'Idiocracy' essentially makes the same call, and is considered a 'cult classic'. Maybe Teddy's call was ridiculed just because it was ahead of its time.

Featured elements:

: birthing; comedy; eugenics; social commentary; white supremacy

How A British Bulldog Saved The Union Jack

Walturdaw (production)

Language: Silent, released in Sep 1906
Minutes: 9

It's the golden rule of American vaudeville and British music halls: when your act is doing badly on stage, especially if you've got zero talent, just start waving the flag - because then no one would dare boo you. Here we see that rule's early migration from stage to screen.

Featured elements:

: action; animal act; anti-colonialism; armed conflict; emblematic shot; ethnic stereotype; goofs; patriotism; South Africa; white supremacy

Broncho Billy And The Greaser

Broncho Billy Anderson (director/lead/writer)
Lee Willard (lead)
Marguerite Clayton (lead)
Essanay (production)

Language: Silent, released in Oct 1914
Minutes: 17

Broncho Billy weighs into the debate on multiculturalism. Definitely not starring Jerry Mathers as "The Greaser".

Featured elements:

: action; comedy; cowboys; ethnic stereotype; fighting; heroic defender; home invasion; rescue; revenge; white flesh lust; white supremacy

The Cheat [1915]

Cecil B. DeMille (director/producer)
Alvin Wyckoff (cinematographer)
Hector Turnbull (author/writer)
Jeanie Macpherson (writer)
Fannie Ward (lead)
Sessue Hayakawa (lead)
Jack Dean (lead)
James Neill (lead)
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Dec 1915
Minutes: 59

Stone-cold yellow man burns hot for white flesh of loose lady. Interracial dating, theft, lies, flesh-peddling, brutal sadism, revenge, blood splatter, lynch mob, and the slickest eyebrow in showbiz - welcome to Pulp Paradise.

Featured elements:

: courtroom; crime; ethnic stereotype; female avenger; lynching; melodrama; prostitution; psycho; revenge; sexuality; social commentary; torture; white flesh lust; white supremacy

A Natural Born Gambler

Bert Williams (director/lead/producer/writer)
Biograph (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jul 1916
Minutes: 22

Fired up to see the legendary comedy of Bert Williams, but only got an historical drama reenacting the racial aspect of the US criminal injustice system. Sad, sad, sad.

Featured elements:

: addiction; alienation; comedy; courtroom; ethnic stereotype; gambling; language; prejudice; prison; social commentary; white supremacy

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