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Oscar Micheaux : the superhero of Black filmmaking / produced by Sky and Quoiat Films ; directed by Francesco Zippel ; written by Francesco Zippel ; produced by Roberto Pisoni, Federica Paniccia, Francesco Zippel.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) PN1998.3.M494 .O837 2025
By Request
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Documentary.
- Biographical.
- African American motion picture producers and directors.
- Race films.
- Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951.
- Micheaux, Oscar.
- Local Subjects:
- Documentary.
- Biographical.
- Genre:
- Biographical films.
- documentary film.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- stamping
- color black and white
- polychrome monochrome
- Other Title:
- Superhero of Black filmmaking
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Kino Classics, [2025]
- Language Note:
- In English; with optional English captions for the Deaf and hard of hearing.
- System Details:
- DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.78:1; 5.1 surround and 2.0 stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- surround
- 2.0
- 5.1
- widescreen
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- 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.
- Participant:
- Interviewees, Gian Luca Farinelli, Chuck D, Amma Asante, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Jacqueline Stewart, Morgan Freeman, Stace England, Patrick McGilligan, Kevin Willmott, Richard Peña, Michele Prettyman, Nicole London, John Singleton, Haskell Wexler, Melvin Van Peebles.
- Credits:
- Editor, Michele Castelli ; director of photography, Carlo Alberto Oreccia ; composer, Maurizio D'Aniello.
- Notes:
- Documentary.
- Originally released as a documentary film in 2021.
- 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).
- Wide screen 1.78:1.
- For private home use only.
- OCLC:
- 1482981631
- Publisher Number:
- 738329269388
- 00738329269388 gtin-14
- 17616092 Midwest Tape
- K26938 Kino Classics
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