Oscar Micheaux The superhero of Black filmmaking
DVD - 2025
Oscar Micheaux was the most influential African American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century, a self-taught artist who funded, produced, and released more than 40 films, all while completely excluded from the Hollywood systems of production and distribution. Francesco Zippel's documentary charts Micheaux's incredible artistic journey, as he followed the urban migration to Chicago, abandoned city life to became a homesteader in South Dakota, and eventually became a resolute storyteller, writing six novels and producing dozens of feature films before his death in 1951.
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- documentary film
Documentary films
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Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
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[New York, New York] :
Kino Classics
[2025]
- Language
- English
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- Item Description
- Originally released as a documentary film in 2021.
Documentary.
Wide screen 1.78:1.
Special features: interview with Kevin Willmott; original trailers of four films by Oscar Micheaux: Veiled aristocrats (1932), Harlem after midnight (1934), Temptation (1936), and Birthright (1939). - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.78:1; 5.1 surround and 2.0 stereo.
- Production Credits
- Editor, Michele Castelli ; director of photography, Carlo Alberto Oreccia ; composer, Maurizio D'Aniello.