Barcode | 738329206017 |
Release Date | 7/26/2016 |
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Celeste Cole | ||
Amon Davis | ||
Donald Heywood | Self | |
Sara Martin | Self | |
Tim Moore | ||
Andrew Tribble |
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Producer |
Oscar Micheaux
Alice B. Russell |
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Writer |
Oscar Micheaux
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Cinematography |
Lester Lang
Walter Strenge |
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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