REOL Productions

[1] It released ten films for African American audiences.

The company promoted its films by noting they were adaptations of works by African American authors such as a film version of Paul Laurence Dunbar's 1902 novel The Sport of the Gods.

The company's The Call of His People was an adaptation of Audrey Bowser's book about passing The Man Who Would Be White.

[2] Plans developed to adapt Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition but did not come to fruition.

[3] In 2002, the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections sought out any holders of the company's films for a restoration and preservation project.

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