Peter P. Jones

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. 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. 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. "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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