Letter: Arlington, Florida to Douglass Theatre, Macon, Georgia, 1926 Oct. 9 Norman, Richard E., 1891-1961 Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.) Norman Film Manufacturing Company Theatre Owners Booking Association Victoria Hotel (Norfolk, Va.) Palace Theatre (Norfolk, Va.) Paramount Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) Regeneration Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) Lyric Theatre (Louisville, Ky.) African Americans in the motion picture industry African Americans in motion pictures Race in motion pictures Race films--United States Feature films--United States Motion picture theaters--Georgia--Macon Commercial agents--Florida Adventure films--United States Flying Ace (Motion picture : 1926) Letter from Richard E. Norman, head of Norman Film Manufacturing Company, a Jacksonville-based, white independent film company active from 1921 to 1926 that specialized in outdoor adventure films for African American audiences, to the gentlemen of the Douglass Theatre, dated October 9, 1926, negotiating terms for film rental. Norman relates that, having contracted with Milton Starr, president of Theatre Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.), to play his circuit of theaters, he can provide The Flying Ace, the last film produced by Norman Film Manufacturing Company, to the Douglass Theatre on November 5th. Norman states his terms and requests a telegrammed response at his own expense and describes the great success of the film, which has played to huge crowds in multiple theaters. Document ID: dbr020. 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. [Athens, Ga.] : Digital Library of Georgia Middle Georgia Archives 2005 Letters (correspondence) Text http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/dtrm/id:dbr020 image/jpeg text/html [1] p. Manuscript held by the Middle Georgia Archives, Washington Memorial Library, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. business records, 1906-1967, box 19, folder 171, document 29. Blues, Black vaudeville, and the silver screen, 1912-1930s (Digital Library of Georgia) GAGAL 1926-10-09 Macon (Ga.) Bibb County (Ga.) Norfolk (Va.) Atlanta (Ga.) Fulton County (Ga.) Louisville (Ky.) Jacksonville (Fla.) Please consult the Middle Georgia Archives re: reproduction and usage. 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.