Pearl Bowser, coauthor of “Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era” and codirector of the documentary MIDNIGHT RAMBLE: OSCAR MICHEAUX AND THE STORY OF RACE MOVIES, recorded this commentary in September 2006.
Professor and film scholar Charles Musser provides an overview of the career of the radical, trailblazing black director Oscar Micheaux (whose work is featured in “Pioneers of African American Cinema”), including the reasons behind the limited accessibility to his oeuvre.
