United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-19511927-09-24Letter from Oscar Micheaux, seminal African American film director, producer, and president of the Micheaux Film Corporation, to Smith, probably William M. Smith, manager of the Douglass Theatre, dated September 24, 1927, negotiating film rental prices. The letter responds to Smith's counteroffer of seventy-five dollars to rent The Millionaire (see dbr025 of the Douglass Theatre Web site). Micheaux recalls the profits that both parties received from The Spider's Web and announces that he is changing the rental to one hundred dollars, which he describes as too low. Micheaux allows that if Smith cannot pay the amount he can let the film be shown on a percentage basis with the cost of vaudeville to be taken out first and the balance split between both parties. Micheaux's film, The Spider's Web, was released in 1926 and was based on "The Policy Players," an original story by Micheaux. The film starred Evelyn Preer, Billy Gulfport, Marshall Rogers, Edward Thompson, Lorenzo McLange, Henrietta Lovelass, and Grace Smith. In 1932, Micheaux released a sound version of the film, The Girl from Chicago.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.image/jpegtext/htmldbr027Blues, Black vaudeville, and the silver screen, 1912-1930s (Digital Library of Georgia) GAGALhttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Micheaux Film CorporationAfrican Americans in the motion picture industryAfrican Americans in motion picturesRace in motion picturesRent chargesFeature films--United StatesRace films--United StatesMotion picture theaters--Georgia--MaconFilm posters--GeorgiaAdvertising--Motion pictures--Georgia--MaconCommercial agents--Illinois--ChicagoNegotiation--Georgia--MaconMillionaire (Motion picture : 1927)Girl from Chicago (Motion picture : 1927)Spider's web (Motion picture : 1927)Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951. Policy playersLetter: Chicago, Illinois to William M. Smith, Macon, Georgia, 1927 Sept. 24Text