SEPIA
TONE
The Oscar Micheaux Story
A Screenplay
by
John Byrd & Amy Ostrower
The most prolific African-American filmmaker and novelist at the dawn of motion pictures, Oscar Micheaux wrote, produced and directed his first silent feature film in 1918, and later was to direct the first "All Negro" sound feature. His is a remarkable story of a man tilting at the stereotypes being churned out of the Hollywood studios, beginning with D.W. Griffith's epic paean to the antebellum South, "The Birth of a Nation".
Films By Oscar Micheaux:
1918 T HE HOMESTEADER 1920 WITHIN OUR GATES 1920 THE BRUTE 1921 DECEIT
1921 GUNSAULUS MYSTERY 1921 SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED 1922 DUNGEON
1922 THE VIRGIN OF THE SEMINOLE 1922 SON OF SATAN 1923 JASPER LANDRY'S WILL
1924 BIRTHRIGHT #1 1924 BODY& SOUL 1926 THE BROKEN VIOLIN 1926 THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE
1926 THE SPIDER'S WEB OR THE GIRL FROM CHICAGO 1927 THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS
1927 THE MILLIONAIRE 1928 WHEN MEN BETRAY 1929 THE WAGES OF SIN
1930 DAUGHTER OF THE CONGO 1930 EASY STREET 1930 THE FOOL'S ERRAND
1931 DARK PRINCESS 1931 DARKTOWN REVUE 1931 THE EXILE 1932 BLACK MAGIC
1932 TEN MINUTES TO LIVE 1932 VEILED ARISTOCRATS 1933 TEN MINUTES TO KILL
1933 PHANTOM OF KENWOOD 1934 HARLEM AFTER MIDNIGHT 1935 THE BRAND OF CAIN
1935 LEM HAWKIN'S CONFESSION 1936 TEMPTATION 1937 GOD'S STEPCHILDREN
1937 UNDERWORLD 1938 SWING 1938 THIRTY YEARS LATER 1939 BIRTHRIGHT 2
1939 LYING LIPS 1940 THE NOTORIUS ELINOR LEE 1948 THE BETRAYAL
