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Overview
With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Micheaux 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 Davis playing a preacher using heavy blackface. Amon Davis was known as "the Back Biting Comedian, Par Excellence", and his sermon is one of Micheaux's many notable send-ups of the clergy.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 31, 1931
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Micheaux Picture Corporation
- Director
- Oscar Micheaux
- Writer
- Oscar Micheaux
- Producer
- Oscar Micheaux,Alice B. Russell
- Cinematography
- Lester Lang,Walter Strenge
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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