Micheaux Film (1931)
Comedy | Music
USA | English | Color | 00:18
With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Michaeux provides a record of several cabaret acts, using intertitles to separate the individual numbers. This quietly outrageous film begins with the high-toned Heywood Choir singing "Watermelon time" and concludes with Amon David playing a preacher using heavy blackface. Amon Davus was known as "the Back Biting Comedian, Par Excellence", and his sermon is one of Michaeux's many notable send-ups of the clergy.
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Celeste Cole | |
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Amon Davis | |
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Donald Heywood | Self |
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Sara Martin | Self |
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Tim Moore | |
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Andrew Tribble |
| Director | Oscar Micheaux |
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| Writer | Oscar Micheaux | |
| Producer | Oscar Micheaux, Alice B. Russell | |
| Photography | Lester Lang, Walter Strenge | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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