Famous Artists Corporation of America

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Letter from Philadelphia-based, white-owned producer of race movies Famous Artists Corporation of America to the Douglass Theatre, dated January 3, 1927, regarding a problem caused by the practice of circuiting films from theater to theater. Famous Artists Corporation of America argues that the fault of a shipping problem with its race film Hello Bill lay with the circuiting theater rather than with the corporation and expresses indignation that the Douglass Theatre has sent the film back with C.O.D. charges and damages due. The corporation asks the theater to release the C.O.D. and adds that the error in a shipment of Famous Negro News was also the fault of the circuiting theater. In response to a request of the Douglass Theatre to cancel their contract, the corporation attempts to dissuade them with news of improvements to Famous Negro News and improvements in the process of circuiting films. Released in 1927, Hello Bill starred Joe Byrd, Billy Higgins, Bill Robinson, and Percy Verwayen.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.

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Middle Georgia Archives

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Digital Library of Georgia