The Darktown Revue
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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Oscar Micheaux
Director
Oscar Micheaux
Writer
Alice B. Russell
Producer
Oscar Micheaux
Producer
Walter Strenge
Director of Photography
Lester Lang
Director of Photography