- Collection:
- The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s: Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre
- Title:
- Letter: Macon, Georgia to Oscar Micheaux, Chicago, Illinois, 1927 Sept. 26
- Creator:
- Smith, William M., theater manager
- Date of Original:
- 1927-09-26
- Subject:
- Micheaux Film Corporation
African Americans in the motion picture industry
African Americans in motion pictures
Race in motion pictures
Rent charges
Feature films--United States
Race films--United States
Motion picture theaters--Georgia--Macon
Film posters--Georgia
Advertising--Motion pictures--Georgia--Macon
Commercial agents--Illinois--Chicago
Negotiation--Georgia--Macon
Millionaire (Motion picture : 1927)
Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)
Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
text/html - Description:
- File copy of a letter (probably from William M. Smith, manager of the Douglass Theatre) to Oscar Micheaux, seminal African American film director, producer, and president of the Micheaux Film Corporation, dated September 26, 1927, negotiating terms for showing a film. The letter responds to Micheaux's counteroffer to rent The Millionaire for one hundred dollars (see dbr027 of the Douglass Theatre Website). The writer offers Micheaux seventy-five dollars to rent the film The Millionaire. He argues that he cannot pay more because of the expense of the paper he will need for advertising, and the low attendance at films relative to that at vaudeville shows. The writer concludes that he hopes the offer is acceptable and details his advertising paper order.
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:
- dbr028
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/dtrm/id:dbr028
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_dtrm_dbr028
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_dtrm_dbr028/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 173, document 8. - Holding Institution:
- Washington Memorial Library, Middle Georgia Regional Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Sept. [September] 26th-27.
Mr. Oscar Micheaux,
Chicago, Ill. [Illinois],
Dear Sir:
Your letter received and you stated about the "Spider's Web" conditions are not like they were then, the best I can do for you would be $75.00 as I will have to use about $30 or 40 worth of paper to make it go and I am playing vaudeville every week, as the pictures alone draws only a few.
Hoping that this will be okay so I can order my paper.
Yours,
This will be paper order: 30-ones- five- threes- one- slide- 50- window cards- one- set of photos- one- trailer and 3000 heralds.