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| Oscar Micheaux: Within Our Gates (US 1920). A milestone of African- American cinema. Photo from IMDb, Please click on it to enlarge. |
/ / US / 1920 / Micheaux, Oscar / drama
Within Our Gates. PC: Micheaux Book and Film Co. D: Oscar Micheaux. CAST: Evelyn Preer, Charles D. Lucas, Jack Chenault. 1809 m /16 fps/ 98’. Silent. LoC reconstruction based on Spanish print. Piano by Donald Sosin. Pordenone, Cinema Verdi, Sunday, 12 October 1997. * Important example of militant African-American filmmaking, screened as an antidote to Birth of a Nation. Clumsy film contains harrowing scenes of racial violence.
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