United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-19511927-10-24Letter from Oscar Micheaux, seminal African American film director, producer, and president of the Micheaux Film Corporation, probably directed to the managers of the Douglass Theatre, dated October 24, 1927, regarding a new policy for shipping film trailers. Micheaux explains that trailers are a problem because, while they are the best means of advertising, they are expensive and are frequently lost in shipping from one theater to another. He announces that his company is trying to solve the problem, beginning with The Millionaire, by having a laboratory make and mail trailers at cost, for C.O.D. $3.50. Micheaux explains that when the trailer is mailed back to Micheaux Film Corporation, the company will refund the sender $2.00, for a net cost to the theater of $1.50. He notes that they are sending a trailer for The Millionaire that day. The Millionaire, released in 1927, starred Grace Smith, J. Lawrence Criner, Lionel Monagas, Cleo Desmond, Samuel T. Jacks, E. G. Tatum, and Chicago Defender editor Robert S. Abbott.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/htmldbr034Blues, 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 chargesMotion picture trailersFeature films--United StatesRace films--United StatesMotion picture theaters--Georgia--MaconCommercial agents--Illinois--ChicagoAdvertising--Motion pictures--Georgia--MaconMillionaire (Motion picture : 1927)Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)Letter: Chicago, Illinois, 1927 Oct. 24Text