Identity elements
Name and location of repository
Beschrijvingsniveau
Stuk
Titel
Original film pressbook: The flying ace. Jacksonville, FL: Norman Film Manufacturing Company
Datum(s)
- 1926 (Vervaardig)
Omvang
Content and structure elements
Bereik en inhoud
"Folio (56 cm); single sheet of 22" x 28" stock, offset printed in 3 colors and folded vertically at center to create 4pp. Illus... Original pressbook for the 1926 film, directed by Richard E. Norman. Norman, a white man, is best remembered for producing eight feature films between 1920-1928. In 1920, he purchased the bankrupt Eagle Film Studios complex in the East Arlington area of Jacksonville, FL., which would become the home of Norman Film Manufacturing Co. - one of the most sophisticated production facilities run by a 'colored' film company. He found success making silent pictures, never making the cross-over into the 'talkies,' and handled the distribution of his films throughout the South. The Flying Ace, an airplane picture touted as 'the first colored picture with real flying in it' featured an all-colored cast, starring Lawrence Criner and Kathryn Boyd, who plaed a female aviatrix." -Lorne Bair