The Trooper of Troop K

The Trooper of Troop K is a Lincoln Motion Picture Company film produced in 1917,[1] directed by Harry A. Gant and starring Noble Johnson.

[6] Joe (Noble Johnson) is fond of Clara (Beulah Hall) but his inept romantic gestures do not impress her.

[7] The soldiers behave heroically against the superior firing power of Mexican Gatling guns.

Like most early Black documentaries or docudrama, the film had no means of distribution after its initial run and was largely forgotten.

Johnson had left the Lincoln Motion Picture Company in 1918, indicating the clip was older than 1921.

A frame from the small portion of the film that still exists. Hall and Smith are in the foreground; Noble in the upper-left iris shot was the key to the film's rediscovery in 2022.