Oscar Micheaux
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title:
Oscar Micheaux
text:
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race films, and has been described as "the most successful African-American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century". He produced both silent films and so
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Writer and African-American film director (1884–1951)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Micheaux
date created:
2003-04-04T15:44:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T16:56:13Z
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