Lime Kiln Club Field Day

Lime Kiln Club Field Day

65 mins | Comedy | Jan. 1, 1913

Modeled after a popular collection of stories known as "Brother Gardener's Lime Kiln Club," the plot features three suitors vying to win the hand of the local beauty. Filmed in 1913, but after considerable footage was shot, the film was abandoned. One hundred years later, the seven reels of untitled and unassembled footage were discovered in the film vaults of the Museum of Modern Art, and are now believed to constitute the earliest surviving feature film starring black actors.

Lime Kiln Club Field Day

65 mins | Comedy | Jan. 1, 1913

Lime Kiln Club Field Day
Modeled after a popular collection of stories known as "Brother Gardener's Lime Kiln Club," the plot features three suitors vying to win the hand of the local beauty. Filmed in 1913, but after considerable footage was shot, the film was abandoned. One hundred years later, the seven reels of untitled and unassembled footage were discovered in the film vaults of the Museum of Modern Art, and are now believed to constitute the earliest surviving feature film starring black actors.
Producers American Mutoscope & Biograph
Original title Lime Kiln Club Field Day
Directors Edwin Middleton, T. Hayes Hunter
Writers Bert Williams

Cast

Bert Williams

as Bert

Odessa Warren Grey

as The Lady

Wes Jenkins

as Brother Gardner