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Hunter C. Haynes (1867 – January 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. He was lauded as a Black filmmaker.

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

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)
• Uncle Remus' First Visit to New York (1914)

See also

• African American cinema

References

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

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