Peter P. Jones was a photographer and filmmaker in the United States. He established the Peter P. Jones Film Company in Chicago in 1914 and filmed African American subjects[1] including vaudeville acts and the 1915 National Half Century Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee.[2] He also filmed community documentaries,[3] chronicling contemporary African American life and social organizations.[4]

According to a front page story in the Chicago Defender, Jones established his film company with funding from South American investors.[5] The company had an office at 3849 State Street.[6] His 1916 film Re-Birth of a Nation was a response to The Birth of a Nation.[7] He later established the Seminole Film Producing Company in New York City, but it never completed its first film project, Shadows and Sunshine, an adaptation of a story by Jesse Shipp.[8]

Jones photographed Booker T. Washington.[9] He also photographed Henry O. Tanner, Bert Williams, Aida Overton Walker, and W. E. B. Du Bois.[5]

Filmography

  • The Troubles of Sambo and Dinah[2]
  • 50 Years of Freedom[2]
  • Dawn of Truth (for the Honor of the 8th)[2][10]
  • The Slacker[2]
  • The Accidental Ruler[2]
  • Re-Birth of a Nation (1916)[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Doing the Right Thing: Black Film & TV in a Biased World". Micah Yongo. October 1, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Field, Allyson Nadia (May 22, 2015). Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822375555 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Critic, Hal Boedeker, Sentinel Television (July 1998). "A SALUTE TO EARLY BLACK FILMMAKERS". OrlandoSentinel.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ Klotman, Phyllis Rauch; Cutler, Janet K. (1999). Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video. Indiana University Press. p. 11-15. ISBN 978-0-253-21347-1.
  5. 1 2 Everett, Anna (August 14, 2001). Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949. Duke University Press. ISBN 0822326140 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". www.silentera.com.
  7. 1 2 "Within Our Gates". silentfilm.org.
  8. ↑ "» Small Independents".
  9. ↑ "Booker T. Washington / Photo by Peter P. Jones, 3631 State St., Chicago". Library of Congress.
  10. ↑ "Documentary Film | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.


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