In 1926, Starkman helped to found the Colored Players Film Corporation with Sherman H. "Uncle Dud" Dudley, a veteran of vaudevillian and race movies.
While only Dudley and the cast comprised the African Americans of the Colored Players Film Corporation, the collaboration between both the white and black staff was an integral part of the company.
Starkman produced the film and wrote it with the co-operation of the black staff in order to understand the social caste among African Americans living within the same neighborhood.
The main protagonist must choose whether or not to be with a woman from a lower caste of society or to leave her in order to keep with the plan his social status has pre-planned for him.
[1] He ultimately wrote scripts and carried the "release prints to out of town play dates and [count] the house in person" (Smith 54).