Ebony Film Corporation

[3] The company produced two-reel Westerns, newsreels, and documentaries[4] as well as several short comedy films with African American casts depicting degrading racial stereotypes.

A Reckless Rover is a 1918 slapstick comedy film that survives in the Library of Congress' collection.

The film credits C. N. David as its director and features a man who does not want to get out of bed pursued by bumbling Keystone Cops style antics.

[5] Sam Robinson starred in several of Ebony's slapstick comedy films.

[6][7] One of the company's advertisements listed its film offerings and teased the coming of a film adaptation of Eldred Kurtz Means' story "Good Luck in Old Clothes" s from the Tickfall Tales series.