The Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first film production company organized by black filmmakers. The company was founded by actor Noble Johnson in May 1916 in Omaha, Nebraska. The Realization of the Negro's Ambition was the first of six films the company produced between 1916 and 1921. The films were intended to create positive images of black people and black life in America, countering the explicitly racist images of white films such as D.
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The Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie production company organized by black film makers. The company was founded by actor Noble Johnson in May 1916 in Omaha, Nebraska. The Realization of the Negro&rsquo;s Ambition was&nbsp;the first of six movies the company produced between 1916 and 1921. The films were intended to create positive images of black people and black life in America, countering the explicitly racist images of white films such as D.W. Griffith&rsquo;s The&nbsp;Birth of a Nation. The movies became part of a genre known as &lsquo;race movies&rsquo; or &lsquo;race films&rsquo;, a genre that existed until around 1950.