Lincoln Motion Picture Company: Amended Articles of Incorporation, 1921

Item Overview

Title

Lincoln Motion Picture Company: Amended Articles of Incorporation, 1921

Alternative title

Black Motion Picture Production Companies

Date Created

1921

Collection

OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

Notes

Description

The Lincoln Motion Picture Company, founded in 1916 by Noble Johnson, was the first all-black movie production company to make films that showcased African American talent, and the first producer of race movies, limited to African American audiences in churches, schools, and "Colored Only" theaters. It remained in operation until 1923, closing shortly after announcing a final project, The Heart of a Negro.
Certificate of the amended articles of incorporation Lincoln Motion Picture Company. Signed by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State, California.

Caption

Written on back of photo: Lincoln Motion Picture Company-Amended Articles of Incorporation (California) Credit: George Johnson.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

photographs

Subject topic

Motion picture studios
African Americans in the motion picture industry

Names

Lincoln Motion Picture Company
Jordan, Frank C. (Frank Chester), 1860-1940

Resource type

still image