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Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (US: / m ɪ ˈ ʃ oʊ / ⓘ; (January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, [1] Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent ...
Oscar Micheaux was America's preeminent black filmmaker for three decades, having directed or produced 22 silent movies and 15 talking pictures. The Czar of Black Hollywood chronicles the real life experiences that inspired Micheaux's films, including the production of the first feature-length film, The Homesteader (1919) , and sound motion ...
The film was produced, co-directed and written for the screen by Micheaux, based on his book of the same name. It is believed [by whom?] to be the first feature-length film made with a black cast and crew, for a black audience, and thus the first example of a race movie.
Oscar Micheaux: 1920 73 min. Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) The Symbol of the Unconquered: A Story of the KKK: Oscar Micheaux 1920 59 min. Max Roach By Right of Birth: Lincoln Motion Picture Co. 1921 4 min. Donald Sosin Body and Soul: Oscar Micheaux 1925 93 min. Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) Screen Snapshots: Micheaux footage 1920 1 minute
Alice Burton Russell (June 30, 1889 – January 1, 1985) was an African-American actress, [1] producer, and the wife of director Oscar Micheaux. [2] She appeared in several films directed by her husband.
Swing!, which is a public domain title, has been frequently shown in film festivals and retrospective series celebrating the creative output of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneering African-American filmmaker, [5] and it has also been broadcast on U.S. television in programming devoted to the history of African-American cinema. [6]
Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent race drama film produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux. The film portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow , the revival of the Ku Klux Klan , the Great Migration of blacks to cities of the North and Midwest, and ...
Underworld is a 1937 gangster film directed by Oscar Micheaux, about a recent graduate from an all-black college who moves from the American South to Chicago and gets swept into the criminal underworld. [1] [2] The film was adapted from the short story "Chicago After Midnight" by Edna Mae Baker.