By Right of Birth
| By Right of Birth | |
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Film poster | |
| Directed by | Harry Gant |
| Screenplay by | Dora Mitchell story by George Perry Johnson |
| Produced by | R.H. Updike |
| Starring | Clarence Brooks Noble Johnson Beulah Hall Jones Anita Thompson Webb King Beatrice George Lester Bates Lew Meehan |
| Cinematography | Harry Gant |
| Music by | John Spikes |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Lincoln Motion Picture Co. |
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Running time | 6 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The film By Right of Birth premiered on June 22, 1921, in Los Angeles, California. This film was one of the few surviving films of the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, which is known as the first producer of race films and of such silent films as By Right of Birth. The company was founded in 1916 and in 1923 produced its last movie, The Heart of a Negro.
In 2022, associate professor Cara Caddoo from The Media School and the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of History at Indiana University Bloomington, while researching her newest book, found lost footage of Noble Johnson and Beulah Hall Jones from an early 1917 film, The Trooper of Troop K, spliced into By Right of Birth, another Lincoln Motion Picture Company film, released in 1921.