This entry in the American Film Institute’s Catalog gives production information and a brief summary of the Colored Players’ film, Ten Nights in a Barroom.  It also notes the screening of the film in Los Angeles, citing two press sources: California Eagle 25 June 1926, p. 7; California Eagle 26 October 1928.  By Elissa Stern

 Carey.  Baltimore Afro-American,10.  Jan 22, 1927. [Cited in Oscar Micheaux and his circle : African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era / Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser editors and curators. [0253339944] Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2001.] 

Announces the Colored Players Film Corporation’s Ten Nights in a Barroom on the program of the Carey Theater in Pittsburgh and includes a plot summary.  By Elissa Stern

"Ten Nights in a Bar Room" Gets Showing. Philadelphia Tribune, 3.  Nov 20, 1926.  [Cited in Oscar Micheaux and his circle : African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era / Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser editors and curators. [0253339944] Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2001.]

This article reviews a preview screening of Ten Nights in a Barroom given by the Colored Players Film Corporation at Philadelphia’s Gladstone Theater “before a representative audience.”  The author also mentions a post-screening visit to the CPFC studios where “race artists, electricians, and cameramen” were busily working on a film.  In addition, he notes Starkman’s dissatisfaction with the “indifference and lack of cooperation of certain local theater owners in doing their part to encourage worthwhile Negro pictures”.  By Elissa Stern

Gilpin Enters Movie’s Realm. Philadelphia Tribune, 3. June 19, 1926. [Cited in Oscar Micheaux and his circle : African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era / Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser editors and curators. [0253339944] Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2001.]

This article discusses the involvement of Charles Gilpin, the famed stage actor, in the Colored Players Film Corporation’s Ten Nights in a Barroom and announces a preview screening. Includes brief quotes from Gilpin. By Elissa Stern

Production-June 1926
Preview-November 17, 1926

Ten Nights in a Barroom was shot at the studios of the Colored Players Film Corporation at 58^th and Woodlawn Streets in Philadelphia. The Colored Players were a Philadelphia-based production company, and used local actors, artisans, and cinematographers. It also had its preview at Philadelphia’s Gladstone Theater in 1926. By Elissa Stern

Black Film Series.  The New York times [0362-4331] (March 21, 1979).

This advertisement announces a 1970 screening of the Colored Players Film Corporation’s Ten Nights in a Barroom (1926) at the Jewish Museum in New York, providing an example of how their work has engaged in inter-ethnic discourse within film history.  By Elissa Stern