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Micheaux, 1931, an eighteen-minute short shot alongside The Exile. Donald Heywood's choir, then Tim Moore and Andrew Tribble, then Amon Davis doing a comic sermon in blackface. The camera barely moves. Library of Congress materials are what circulate. It is a record of a Black revue for a Black house, including the parts that still make people flinch.
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Eighteen minutes of a revue for a Black house, shot flat. A choir, a comedy duo, and a sermon in blackface. Micheaux does not explain it, and the film is worth the discomfort because he does not.
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