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- A young college educated black man meets a girl of Asian descent and falls in love with her. Their love story was caught up with events burdened up by a racial animosity.
- Nelson Holmes, a black man posing as a white man, had advanced from office boy to general manager. Nelson, hiding his true identity for obvious reasons, comes face to face with an old classmate during a job interview. Fearing that his old friend will expose his true color, he hires him to be his personal secretary. When one of Nelson's competitors tries to steal important contracts, his secretary rescues the contracts. Nelson is deeply affected by such loyalty.
- Little information is known about the nature of this film, it is considered lost.
- A short narrative comedy production that deals with African American jazz culture. The film was shot using the same cabaret set as was used in The Sport of the Gods at Tolden Studios, Bronx, New York.
- This was the second Reols documentary commissioned by the Tuskegee Institute. The film was a montage of interviews with students and faculty. On occasion, the documentary was screened in accompaniment with the narrative film Spitfire, also produced by Reol Productions.
- Commissioned by the Tuskegee Institute, this was the story of the life and achievements of Dr. Booker T. Washington, founder and president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama from 1881 to 1915. The documentary utilized reenactment, with a young Paul Robeson featured in the lead role. Washington had passed away in 1915 and Tuskegee revered his memory. The fact that Reol was chosen for the production of this film on Washington's life speaks volumes about the esteem that Levy's work held in popular circles.
- Reol's seventh feature is the Semi-Western drama. Spitfire tells the story of Guy Rogers a son of a well-known Black publisher, who has written a novel entitled The Uplift but is told by his publisher that it lacks the aura of reality because he has not lived among the lowly folk about whom he attempts to write. The search for the authentic experience for his novel requires that the novelist declare that he will take Washington as his model and prove that he too, can work as well as write and thus try to emulate our great leader. Rogers promptly travels to a Maryland settlement and meets Spitfire (Morton), the high-spirited daughter of a local farmer. They fall In love but not before a plot develops that as one reviewer put it "just teems with action".
- A research chemist with a drug company, is close to success in his attempt to develop a chemical substitute for gasoline. Juan Bronson, who is the private secretary of, the president of the company, conspires with to steal Paul's formula. Believing Paul to be carrying the formula, Bronson and Anderson kidnap him, but the papers are not on his person. Paul manages to call Isobel Benton, his sweetheart, and instructs her to go to his laboratory for the papers. Anderson overhears the conversation and also goes there, but Isobel outwits him and gets away with the formula. Anderson then frames Paul for the theft of some other important formulas, and Paul gives his formula back to Isobel for safekeeping. Anderson abducts Isobel, and Paul rescues her with the help of Davidson and a detective. Isobel proves Paul's innocence, and the detective tells Davison that Bronson and Anderson are notorious criminals, wanted by a South American government.
- A recent young widow Anne Morgan is thrust into terrible poverty. Unable to care for both of her children, she persuades a prominent black doctor to adopt one of the boys. The doctor raises the young boy well, and he grows into a successful lawyer. Unaware that they are brothers, the two meet again as men- one as a prisoner falsely accused of murder, the other as the district attorney at the trial. Almost too late, the truth of the crime and their family relationship is discovered, and the two men are united again as brothers. The Secret Sorrow is considered to be lost; however, in 2020, the two short clips were discovered.
- Little information is known about the nature of this film, it is considered lost.
- Andy Simpson, constable, blacksmith and all-round mechanic of Millbrook, a thrifty little southern town, is looked upon as slow, plodding, and lacking in ambition by all save Margie Watkins, his sweetheart and daughter of the bank president. Margie, however, becomes attracted to J. Overton Tighe (a partner of James Bradford, notorious promoter of "wildcat" investments), who is newly arrived in town in an expensive car. Despite Andy's warnings, the townspeople eagerly buy shares in a phony stock promoted by Tighe. Mrs. Watkins even persuades her husband to invest some of the bank's funds in the enterprise. Even after he finds conclusive evidence, Andy hesitates to arrest Tighe, for an arrest would mean the ruin of Margie's father. Margie, apparently disregarding Andy's advice, continues her affair with Tighe, and they become engaged. Tighe finds oil on Andy's land and buys it for a song. Andy finally exposes Tighe's real business in Millbrook (which is more serious than swindling), arrests Tighe, and in the end turns the tables on the shrewd promoter and himself gets the easy money.