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Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent race drama film produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux.
Within Our Gates: Directed by Oscar Micheaux. With Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault. Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
Southern negro Sylvia Landry visits her cousin Alma in the north, where there is less racial prejudice than in her home town of Piney Woods in the deep south, and is anxiously awaiting her fiancé, Conrad.
Oct 3, 2019 · Unlike The Birth of a Nation, Within Our Gates was banned or censored in some cities over fears of racial unrest. It was also, for many decades, considered a “lost” film—one of the many silent movies that were carelessly destroyed or left to languish in an unknown storage unit.
The story of writer, producer, and director Oscar Micheaux is that of a ghost industry that might have been—in other words, an American film industry with plenty of latitude, opportunity and...
Dec 31, 2014 · Within Our Gates (1920) is a silent race film that dramatically expresses the racial situation in America during the violent years of Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, and the emergence of the "New Negro".
Jul 26, 2023 · Evelyn Preer and Jack Chenault in Within Our Gates. The story of writer, producer, and director Oscar Micheaux is that of a ghost industry that might have been—in other words, an American...
The print of Within Our Gates now available to the public is not the original film which Micheaux screened for film audiences in January, 1920. The surviving print is remarkably radical considering contemporary cinematic discourse among African-American filmmakers of the era.
Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent race drama film produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux. The film portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow, the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration of blacks to cities of the North and Midwest, and ...
Drawing on the familiar tradition of melodrama and making powerful use of flashbacks within the story, WITHIN OUR GATES tells the story of Sylvia Landry (Evelyn Preer), a young African-American woman from the South who heads north to raise money for a rural school for black children.
