Composer and singer-songwriter Kathryn Bostic is the first female African American score composer in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Tonight, Bostic presents the world premieres of new scores to two films: Something Good - Negro Kiss and The Flying Ace.  

Something Good - Negro Kiss 
Believed to be the earliest cinematic display of Black affection, Something Good - Negro Kiss portrays the joyous embrace of tenderness between a well-dressed man and a woman in an ornate dress. 

The Flying Ace 
In The Flying Ace, the charismatic Laurence Criner plays a former World War I pilot-turned-maverick detective out to get a stolen satchel filled with $25,000 of company payroll and the gang of railroad thieves who took it. From the studio and director that made the now-lost feature Regeneration (1923), the film that gave the museum’s exhibition its name, The Flying Ace was filmed in Jacksonville, Florida. A spirited entertainment with chases, aerial derring-do, romantic intrigue, and an evocative cast of characters, The Flying Ace was added to the National Film Registry in 2021.