- Collection:
- The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s: Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre
- Title:
- Letter: Atlanta, Georgia to Douglass Theatre, Macon, Georgia, 1927 July 8
- Creator:
- Cole, E. L.
- Date of Original:
- 1927-07-08
- Subject:
- Atlanta Film Board of Trade
Motion picture theaters--Georgia--Macon
Motion picture serials
Business ethics
Obligations (Law)--Georgia--Macon
Breach of contract--Georgia--Macon
Negotiation--Georgia--Macon
Fire fighters (Motion picture : 1927)
Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
text/html - Description:
- Letter from E. L. Cole, executive secretary of the Atlanta Film Board of Trade, to the gentlemen of the Douglass Theatre, dated July 8, 1927, responding to the Douglass Theatre's claim that another theater is showing the serial, Fire Fighters. Cole conveys that Universal Pictures Corporation claims that the film is only being shown in the Douglass Theatre in Macon, Georgia at the present time. Cole requests the name of the theater that is supposedly showing Fire Fighters concurrently with the Douglass Theatre. The ten-episode silent serial was released in January of 1927 and starred Jack Daugherty, Helen Ferguson, Wilbur McGaugh, and Lafe McKee. It is presumed lost. See also dbr082 and dbr083 of the Douglass Theatre Web site for Luke Stein's discussion of their claim.
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:
- dbr024
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/dtrm/id:dbr024
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_dtrm_dbr024
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_dtrm_dbr024/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 172, document 20. - Holding Institution:
- Washington Memorial Library, Middle Georgia Regional Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
[Note: This document contains typewritten, handwritten, and printed text.]
[printed text:
Atlanta Film Board of Trade
HAAS & HOWELL BUILDING
LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE
TELEPHONE WALNUT 4310 SUITE 307
215 ONE-O-ONE BUILDING
ATLANTA, GA. [GEORGIA],]
[typewritten text: July 8, 1927.
Douglass Theatre,
355-359 Broadway,
Macon, Ga. [Georgia]
Gentlemen:
We have yours of the 2nd, which was received during the writer's absence from the city.
We do not understand just what you mean by asking if there is any protection on second run pictures, and citing that you are playing Universal's Serial, "FIRE FIGHTERS" and the other theatre is also showing the same serial.
We have taken this matter up with Universal, and they advise that you have the first run colored in Macon, and that the serial has already played the first run white in the Publix House, having been completed on May 6th. According to their records this picture is not being shown in any other house in Macon except yours at the present time. If it is being run there, we would thank you to advise us the name of the theatre.
Yours very truly,]
[Signed] [written text: E. L. Cole]
[typewritten text: Executive Secretary.]