Box set: Pioneers Of African American Cinema
Barcode 738329206017
Release Date 7/26/2016

The Darktown Revue
Micheaux Film (1931)
Comedy, Music
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#2363
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IMDB   4.8
18 mins USA / English
DVD 
Celeste Cole
Amon Davis
Donald Heywood Self
Sara Martin Self
Tim Moore
Andrew Tribble
Director
Oscar Micheaux
Producer Oscar Micheaux
Alice B. Russell
Writer Oscar Micheaux
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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