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]