Film The Darktown Revue 1931

With a series of long takes and frontal camera set ups Michaeux provides a record of several cabaret acts using intertitles to separate the individual numbers This quietly outrageous film begins with the high toned Heywood Choir singing 8220 Watermelon time8221 and concludes with Amon David playing a preacher using heavy blackface Amon Davus was known as 8220 the Back Biting Comedian Par Excellence8221