The Flying Ace

The Flying Ace 1926 is a blackandwhite silent film with an all AfricanAmerican, or colored, cast.

The basis of the movie is rooted to World War I when many Americans still thought the African Americans to be inferior. Blacks yearned for a figure head that would represent their willingness to serve the United States. This person was Captain Billy Stokes. He was a black fighter pilot and an inspiration when it came to breaking through racial barriers to serve the nation. Because he was such an inspiration, Richard Norman introduced a new light when he thought to make race movies to give different ethnic groups, especially blacks, hope in a segregated country. Although a white man, he wanted to reveal the strength of the blacks in America. Before launching his race movie industry, the Great Migration occurred in the early 1900s. He took advantage of the many blacks that emigrated to the North in America from the South by attracting them with such movies. Through developing race movies, Norman and his company became one of the three foremost names and producers in racial movies in America.Captain Billy Stokes is World War I veteran fighter pilot who is assigned, at first, to acquire 25, 000 of company payroll through retrieving a stolen satchel. His tasks seem to incline in the level of difficulty and danger, as the second task is to pinpoint a missing employee. Stokess last command is to catch a gang of railroad thieves. He performs all these threatening tasks after immediately regaining his former job as a railroad company detective. ........

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