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The Broken Earth
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Wikipedia article
'The Broken Earth' is an American film written and directed by Roman Freulich in 1939. The 11-minute short film stars Clarence Muse as a sharecropper and widower who plows his farm and tries to care for a sick son, pleading and praying for divine intervention. The film includes a soundtrack of negro spirituals.
Freulich was a photographer who immigrated from Poland. He shot movie stills and glamour shots, along with shooting the film with dramatic angels. The film is extant.
Muse owned a ranch that was used as a filmmaking location.http://www.alternativeprojections.com/assets/Article-PDFs/Donna-Mungen-The-Black-Experience.pdf
The Southern Methodist University Libraries have the film in their collection The film was screened in 2007 and discussed by Morgan State University professor Thomas Cripps.
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Category:1939 films
Category:1939 short films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1930s English-language films
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