Release Date: 1931-01-31
Runtime: 18
Languages: English
Rating: 3.2
Votes: 4
Genres: Comedy | Music
Director: Oscar Micheaux
Description: 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 wi...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.Read More
Production Companies:
Micheaux Picture Corporation
