Josh Binney: From Max Sennett to Cab Calloway

This biography traces Josh Binney's unusual film and stage career, which ranged from praise for his direction in Boston of the play Pinocchio to imprisonment in Montana for movie investment fraud. Particular attention is paid to his work in the 1940s for All American News, one of the major independent producers of films for the Black market. Binney's credits there led The Times

of London fifty years later to call him one of the "spiritual forefathers" of Spike Lee.

T. Dennis Reece is a retired U.S. Department of State Foreign Service officer who served in the Soviet Union, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Cabo Verde, and Washington, D.C. A graduate of Valparaiso and Purdue Universities in Indiana, he now lives in Tampa, Florida. He is a volunteer for the Goodwill-Suncoast Bookworks early literacy program and is head of the Clearwater chapter of the Sons of the Desert, the Laurel and Hardy appreciation society.