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![]() 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks building | |
Company type | Production company |
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Industry | Film, television |
Founded | 1979 |
Founders | Spike Lee, Monty Ross |
Headquarters | South Elliott Place, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Motion pictures, television programs, commercials |
Services | Film production, television production |
Website | 40acres |
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks is the production company of Spike Lee,[1][2] founded in 1979.[3] The company name is a reference to the phrase most often used to refer to the early Reconstruction period policy and episode of events, in which certain recently emancipated black families on the Georgia coast were given lots of land no larger than 40 acres (160,000 m2) and in some cases surplus army mules. The order, issued in 1865 by General Sherman as "Special Field Order 15", was later revoked by Andrew Johnson, and the land was taken away from the freed slaves and returned to previous owners.[4] The company's logo contains a circle with the icon "40a". Later on, it used a parody of the Mark VII Limited logo.