Broome Exhibition Company was an early film company in the United States focused on producing social uplift films for the African American community. It led a film project inspired by Booker T. Washington for Tuskegee Institute. It also corresponded with W. E. B. Du Bois in 1917 about plans to produce a film catalogue about accomplished African Americans.[1] Du Bois responded to a request for names with a letter to George Broome listing many.[2] Broome exhibited the Tuskegee film along with actualities and a short of cotton production operations and the Tenth Cavalry. Tuskegee officials including Washington preferred to control and carefully manage exhibition of the film for fundraising activities rather than have it shown commercially to African American audiences.[3]
Filmography
edit- A Trip to Tuskegee (1909)[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Letter from Broome Exhibition Company to W.E.B. Du Bois, March 7, 1917".
- ^ "Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to Broome Exhibition Company". www.digitalcommonwealth.org.
- ^ 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.
- ^ ""To Show the Industrial Progress of the Negro Along Industrial Lines": Uplift Cinema Entrepreneurs at Tuskegee Institute, 1909–1913". May 18, 2015. doi:10.1215/9780822375555-003 – via read.dukeupress.edu.
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