United States, 39.76, -98.5REOL Productions Corporation1922Circular from REOL Productions Corporation, a white-owned, New York City-based film company that released ten films for African Americans from 1920 to 1924, advertising the film Easy Money, probably dated 1922. The circular is folded and appears to have been designed to be mailed. The cover mimics the appearance of a mailed solicitation promising "easy money for you!" Listing the address of the company, the interior of the circular encourages exhibitors to show the picture again if they have already screened it and to book the film with a personal appearance by the film's starring actor, African American vaudevillian Sherman H. Dudley, who later would become president of the white-owned, Philadelphia-based independent film company, Colored Film Players Corporation. An image of Dudley accompanies the text. Dudley's name and the title of the film appear below with the declarations "the biggest comedy-drama hit of the year!" and "brilliant supporting cast of colored artists." The back of the circular reiterates the promise "easy money for you!" Easy Money, released in 1921, was one of only two comedies released by REOL.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.text/htmlimage/jpegdbr046http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/Manuscript held by the Middle Georgia Archives, Washington Memorial Library, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. business records, 1906-1967, box 20, folder 192, document 39.REOL Productions Corporation New York (N.Y.)African Americans in the motion picture industryAfrican Americans in motion picturesRace in motion picturesRace films--United StatesFeature films--United StatesComedy films--United StatesFilm posters--New YorkAdvertising--Motion pictures--New York (State)--New YorkAdvertising fliers--New YorkCommercial agentsEasy money (Motion picture : 1922)Dudley, Sherman H., ca. 1870-1940Circular from REOL Productions Corporation advertising the film Easy money, possibly 1922Text