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Racial Attitudes of 1920s Give Rise to Creation of Entertainment Circuits
People often associate the roaring twenties with jazz, flappers and prohibition. But a discussion of this era would not be complete without having mentioned the racial attitudes of the time and the...
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Chitlin’ Circuit Theaters: The Howard Theater, Washington, DC
Jim Crow laws and culture did not allow black artists to play at “white only” downtown theaters. As a result, a string of entertainment venues throughout eastern and southern United States known as...
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Chitlin’ Circuit: Club DeLisa
The Club DeLisa, also written Delisa or De Lisa, at State Street and Garfield Avenue, on the South Side, owned by the four DeLisa brothers, opened in 1934. In 1941, the original building burned down...
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Chitlin’ Circuit: Detroit’s Paradise Theater (Originally Orchestra...
In what has been a circuitous route, set against a timeline from the late 1800s to the 1940s, from New York to California, from California east again following the movie industry, and following a...
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Chitlin’ Circuit Correction
In an earlier post, when I first started my series of articles on the Chitlin’ Circuit, I incorrectly wrote that Detroit’s Fox Theater was one of the theaters in the circuit of theaters in which...
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On this Day in Movie History, June 16, 1959 : Superman Dies
On this day, June 16, 1959, the death of a screen icon rocked Hollywood. According to the Los Angeles Police Department report, between approximately 1:30 and 2:00 a.m. on June 16, 1959, George Reeves...
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Let Us Ask You
Raising money for a film festival is something new to us. When we started, we were told that the way to raise funds today was to use the crowd funding concept. We had a number of alternatives to...
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A Plea to Jackson, Michigan Residents
Twenty four days ago we started a campaign on Indiegogo that was to raise funds to start a film festival for Jackson, Michigan a reality. Twenty four days have passed, and we have had but one...
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Join Us for Our Salute to Military Members, May 26
Be our guest. Join us May 26, as the South-Central Michigan Film Alliance presents their Salute to the Military Members. This FREE! Sunday matinee will feature four short films, a documentary, and...
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