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The Darktown Revue
The Darktown Revue

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The Darktown Revue

NR·1931·18m

Summary

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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Director, Writer

Oscar Micheaux

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Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

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