Within Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux)
by Oscar Micheaux
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Actor: Alma Prichard, Flo Clements, Jack Chenault, James D. Ruffin, William SmithDirector: Oscar Micheaux
Primary Contributor: Evelyn Preer
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled)
Format: Full Screen, NTSC
Published: 2007
Audience Rating: Unrated
Product features:
- Earliest Surviving African-American-made Film
Movie Reviews of Within Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux)
Movie Review: The foundation of Black film
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the foundation of Black films-the oldest surviving feature film by a Black American writer/director.
This is a brutally raw and truthful tale about a Black woman who goes to a rural school in the South to educate her people. It is revelaed that she has a past and her parents have been lynched. Being released after the 1919 race riots caused this film to be widely banned until its rediscovery as "La Negra" (The Black Woman) in Spain sixty years later.
This movie is uncompomisingly honest in displaying the obstacles educated Blacks faced in those days, both from white racists and black traitors. The Lynching scene is heart-wrenching (if not as graphic as the recent "Great Debaters") and the film stands as a good history lesson. The only problem is writer-director Oscar Michaeux's eccessive use of flashbacks tend to confuse the viewer and you'll have to watch this twice to really put everything together. That aside, it's an interesting look at the forerunner of all that was to come.
Summary of Within Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux)
This is the earliest surviving movie made by an African-American director. It is the first look at the African-American's plight in the early 1900's filmed by a member of its own community. Even then, it was recognized that education is the key to bettering one's condition in life. Getting the funds for segregated schools was especially difficult. Unless the reverend can raise $5,000 to supplement the $1.49 per child the state supplies, the school will be closed. Sylvia, a committed parishioner, goes north to raise the money with little success. After several adventures, she meets a wealthy female philanthropist sympathetic to her quest. Despite opposition to her donation from bigoted friends, she comes through in a big way.DVD Video
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