The Darktown Revue (1931)
Details
Original Title: The Darktown Revue
Release Date: January 31, 1931
Runtime: 18 minutes
Budget: $0.0
Revenue: $0.0
Overview
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.
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