Format:
1 DVD-Video (71 Min.)
,
schwarz-weiß
Uniform Title:
Within our gates
Content:
"Within Our Gates" is the earliest surviving feature film by an African American, a distinction that can make it seem merely some historic curiosity. Instead, the film remains dramatically gripping and socially audacious in so many ways. Its mixed-race cast allows it to grapple with issues far beyond the scope both of later all black "race movies" and of tamer Hollywood productions: bigotry, miscegenation, the Great Migration north, racial uplift, and racial betrayal, all under the cloud of Jim Crow-era lynching. This second of Oscar Micheaux’s films (after the lost "The Homesteader") centers on a young, light-skinned African American named Sylvia Landry (played by Evelyn Preer, the lead also in eight lost Micheaux silents) with a mysterious past and a mission to raise funds in the North for a struggling school for black children in the South. [silentfilm.org]
Note:
Stummfilm mit engl. Zwischentiteln
In:
Pioneers of African-American Cinema [Folge von VD 18.522], [2016]
Language:
Undetermined
Keywords:
DVD-Video
