By Right of Birth (1921) [Only Surviving Works From The Lincoln Motion Picture Company]

Starring:

• Clarence Brooks
• Anita Thompson 
• Webb King

Storyline
Lincoln Motion Picture Company. Juanita Cooper is the adopted daughter of Frank Cooper and Geraldine Cooper. Geraldine backs Manuel Romero, an unscrupulous Mexican-American stockbroker, on a trip to Oklahoma to secure oil leases from Freedmen allottees, who are ignorant of the real value of their holding. Romero focuses on an allotment belonging to Helen, a missing allottee. He forges Helen's name to a lease, while searching for her. Geraldine discovers that Juanita is the missing Helene. After witnessing deceit and death, Juanita is reunited with her real mother and comes into the fortune and happiness which is hers.

Black Gold (1928) [Lost Film]

Starring:

• Laurence Criner
• Kathryn Boyd
• Steve Reynolds

Storyline
Filmed entirely in the area of Tatums, Oklahoma, an all-black town: Oil has been discovered on the range-land nears Tatus, and all ranching had been abandoned to the drilling of wildcat oil-wells. Mart Ashton, owner of the Circle Bar Ranch, has also caught Black Gold Fever to the extent of using all his cash and selling his large herd of cattle to finance the cost of a drilling-rig and crew. On an adjoining tract, the Ohio Company brings in a well and Ashton is put in the position of drilling an off-set well within thirty days or lose all rights to drill on his own land. However, he has ran out of money and his driller, Pete Barkley, is scheming with Walter Wonder, cashier of the Ranchman's National Bank, to delay the drilling. He borrows the needed money from the bank, but Wonder accuses him of stealing it, and the U. S. Marshal jails him. His ranch foreman, Ace Brand, knows he is innocent but is unable to prove it. With no crew and only seven days left to bring in the well, it is up... 

The Realization of a Negro's Ambition (1916) [Lost Film]

The  Oregon  Daily  Journal  (Port land,  Mult nomah,   Oregon)  ·     6  Aug  1916,   Sun  ·     Page  32

The  Bost on  Globe  (Bost on,   Suf f olk,  Massachuset t s,   Unit ed  St at es  of   America)  ·     2  Jul  1916,   Sun  ·     Page  48

The  New  York  Age  (New  York,   New  York,   New  York)  ·     10  Aug  1916,   Thu  ·     Page  6

Salt   Lake  Telegram  (Salt   Lake  Cit y,   Ut ah,   Unit ed  St at es  of   America)  ·     12  Jul  1916,  Wed  ·     Page  11

Starring:

• Noble Johnson
• Clarence Brooks
• Webb King 
• George Reed 

Storyline
Lincoln Motion Picture Company. James Burton, a young Negro graduate from Tuskegee, as a civil engineer finds no satifaction working on his father's farm and heads west. Unable to find a job because of his color, he is despondent. He chances upon a runaway two-horse rig and risks his life to stop it. Unknowingly, he saved the daughter of an oil company owner. Out of gratitude he's given a job as head of oil expeditions. He convinces the owner to let him drill on his father's farm and surrounding farms. After a round of trickery and romance he strikes oil and is soon wealthy. He buys a home and gets married. The last scene shows James in later years, with ambition realized: home and family, a nice country to live and nice people to live by and enjoy it with him. 

Reform School [a.k.a. Prison Bait] (1939, Re-released in 1944, Lost Film)

Starring:

• Louise Beavers 
• Reginald Fenderson 
• Monte Hawley

Storyline
Reform School (1939) was re-released as Prison Bait (1944). The picture deals with the brutal manner in which petty offenders are disciplined in reform school for juveniles, and with the campaign waged by a woman probation officer to substitute kindness and education. A parole violator is sentenced to reform school and while there becomes the victim of the superintendent and guard's cruelties. Later, his case is brought to the attention of the probation officer. Through her efforts the superintendent is removed and more humane and progressive discipline methods are implemented. Later, the guard steals and plants evidence that cast suspicion on the boy. The boy and his pals, however, take matters into their own hands. Breaking confinement, they round up the guard and force him to confess.