# George Perry Johnson

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**George Perry Johnson** (October 29, 1885 - October 17, 1977[1]) was a film producer, writer, and newsreel producer in the United States. He produced [Lincoln Motion Picture Company](/source/Lincoln_Motion_Picture_Company) films with his brother [Noble Johnson](/source/Noble_Johnson) and later produced newsreels for African American audiences.[2][3][4]

He graduated from the [Hampton Institute](/source/Hampton_Institute) in Virginia in 1904. He moved to [Tulsa](/source/Tulsa), Oklahoma and established *[The Tulsa Guide](/source/The_Tulsa_Guide)* newspaper in 1906. In 1913 he moved to Omaha, Nebraska and worked at the U.S. Post Office. He later settled in Los Angeles and worked as a writer, producer, and distributor for the Lincoln Motion Picture Company during its existence from 1916 until 1923 while also working for the post office. After the film company closed he established the [Pacific Coast News Bureau](/source/Pacific_Coast_News_Bureau) in 1923. It lasted until 1927.[5]

## Filmography

- *[By Right of Birth](/source/By_Right_of_Birth)* (1921), story author[6]

## References

1. ["Johnson, Noble and George | Encyclopedia.com"](https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/johnson-noble-and-george). *www.encyclopedia.com*. Retrieved 26 January 2021.

1. ["Johnson (George P.) Negro Film Collection"](https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5s2006kz/entire_text/). *oac.cdlib.org*

1. ["Noble and George Johnson -The Lincoln Motion Picture Company"](http://normanstudios.org/nsdrc/portfolio/the-lincoln-motion-picture-company/). *normanstudios.org*. Retrieved 21 February 2021.

1. Michaels, Camille R. (July 15, 2017). [*African Americans in Film: Issues of Race in Hollywood*](https://books.google.com/books?id=0H1mDwAAQBAJ&q=george+perry+johnson+lincoln&pg=PA23). Greenhaven Publishing LLC. ISBN 9781534560819. – via Google Books.

1. ["Johnson (George P.) Negro Film Collection"](https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5s2006kz/). *oac.cdlib.org*

1. ["The Lincoln Motion Picture company, a first for Black cinema | African American Registry"](http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/lincoln-motion-picture-company-first-black-cinema). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160519202751/http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/lincoln-motion-picture-company-first-black-cinema) 2016-05-19 at the Wayback Machine.

## External links

- ["A Biography of George P. Johnson"](https://northomahahistory.com/2020/03/01/a-biography-of-george-p-johnson/) by Adam Fletcher Sasse for NorthOmahaHistory.com
- [*Tulsa Guide* newsclipping showing staff](https://www.newspapers.com/article/44180424/the_tulsa_guide/)

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