- Collection:
- The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s: Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre
- Title:
- Letter: Washington, D.C. to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., Macon, Georgia, 1925 Sept. 14
- Creator:
- Jackson, Andrew F.
- Date of Original:
- 1925-09-14
- Subject:
- Cinema News Service
Newsreels--United States
African Americans in the motion picture industry
African Americans in motion pictures
Race in motion pictures
Race films--United States
Motion picture theaters--Georgia--Macon
Film posters--Georgia
Advertising--Motion pictures--Georgia--Macon
Commercial agents--Southern States
Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)
Douglass, Charles Henry, 1870-1940 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
text/html - Description:
- Letter from Andrew F. Jackson, manager of Cinema News Service, to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., owner of the Douglass Theatre, dated September 14, 1925, advertising newsreels. Jackson, whose company produces Negro News Reels, asserts that patrons of the Douglass Theatre would be interested in his films. He offers recent newsreels for twenty dollars per day.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2005, as part of Georgia HomePLACE. This project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. - Local Identifier:
- dbr016
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/dtrm/id:dbr016
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_dtrm_dbr016
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_dtrm_dbr016/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Theater Records Series, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. Business Records, 1906-1967, Middle Georgia Archives, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- [1] p.
Manuscript held by the Middle Georgia Archives, Washington Memorial Library, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. business records, 1906-1967, box 19, folder 169, document 22. - Holding Institution:
- Washington Memorial Library, Middle Georgia Regional Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
[Note: This document contains typewritten, handwritten, and printed text.]
[printed text:
A. F. JACKSON
Manager
We Picturize Race Achievements
A. JOHNSON
Secretary
Cinema News Service
WASHINGTON, D. C.]
[typewritten text: Prudential Bank Building
September 14, 1925.
Mr. C. H. Douglas, Manager
Douglas Theatre,
Macon, Ga. [Georgia]
Mr. dear [Dear] Mr. Douglas:
A word of introduction, we are producers of Negro News Reels, specializing in their current achievements.
I believe that the patrons of your theatre would appreciate the showing of films relative to Race life. It is instructive as well as, entertaining.
We have a few late reels on hand, and should you care to take them, at twenty dollars ($20.) per day we will be proud to serve you.
Very truly y ours [yours],]
[Signed] [written text: Andrew F. Jackson]
[typewritten text: Manager Cinema News Service.
AFJ*sb]
[printed text: PICTURE ADVERTISING---OUR SPECIALTY]