- Collection:
- The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s: Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre
- Title:
- Letter: Chicago, Illinois to William M. Smith, Macon, Georgia, 1927 Sept. 30
- Creator:
- Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951
- Date of Original:
- 1927-09-30
- 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.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
text/html - Description:
- Letter 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 30, 1927, negotiating terms for film rental. The letter responds to Smith's counteroffer of seventy-five dollars to rent The Millionaire (see dbr028 of the Douglass Theatre Web site). Micheaux rejects Smith's offer of seventy-five dollars for The Millionaire and says he is ordering the advertising paper sent to Smith at half-price. Micheaux asserts that the picture is worth more than they are charging and hopes that the matter is closed.
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:
- dbr029
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/dtrm/id:dbr029
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_dtrm_dbr029
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_dtrm_dbr029/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 17. - Holding Institution:
- Washington Memorial Library, Middle Georgia Regional Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
[Note: This document contains typewritten, handwritten, and printed text.]
[printed text:
MICHEAUX FILM CORPORATION
Western Exchange
36th ST. [STREET] & VINCENNES AVE. [AVENUE]
CHICAGO]
[typewritten text: September 30, 1927
Douglas Theatre
Macon, Ga. [Georgia]
Dear Smith:
Receipt of yours of recent date, I acknowledge, and regret that I cannot accept your renewed offer of $75.00 for the "Millionaire."
I am, however, ordering the paper sent to you at approximately half-price, that is, about $12.00 less than the invoice, which is a split in the difference in what you offer and which we demand. I trust this will prove satisfactory and close the matter as we will not do any better on a picture of this kind which is worth a great deal more than we are accepting.
OM/EA
Very truly,
[Signed] MICHEAUX FILM CORPORATION]
[Signed] [written text: Oscar Micheaux]
[printed text:[Note: The following text appears upside-down, indicating that Micheaux used paper from Atlas Educational Film Company, rotated it 180 degrees, and stamped his own letterhead at the top.]
ATLAS EDUCATIONAL FILM CO. [COMPANY]]