Hunter Haynes Explained

Hunter C. Haynes (1867January 1, 1918) was an innovator of strops to sharpen razor blades, founded a barbershop supply company, and was a film producer and film company founder. His parents had been enslaved for part of their lives. He established Haynes Photoplay Company after working as a producer at the white-owned Afro-American Film Company.^[1] He was lauded as a Black filmmaker.^[2]

He was born in Selma, Alabama. His parents were William Haines, a laborer, and Silvia Haines, a seamstress.^[1]

Afflicted with tuberculosis, he resided in Saranac, New York to recuperate but died on New Year's Day of 1918. He was buried in his hometown of Selma, Alabama.

Filmography

• Lovie Joe's Romance (1914)
• One Large Evening (1914)^[3]
• Uncle Remus' First Visit to New York (1914)^[4]

See also

• African American cinema

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hunter C. Haynes. Encyclopedia of Alabama. J. Fred. Olive III. September 9, 2010.
2. Book: Field, Allyson Nadia. Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity. May 22, 2015. Duke University Press. 9780822375555. Google Books.
3. Book: Massood, Paula J. . Making a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film . 2013-01-22 . Rutgers University Press . 978-0-8135-5589-8 . en.
4. Web site: 100 Years in post production . press.moma.org . 2021-01-29.