The Darktown Revue (1931)

With a series of long takes and frontal camera setups Michaeux provides a record of several cabaret acts using intertitles to separate the individual numbers This quietly outrageous film begins with the hightoned Heywood Choir singing Watermelon time and concludes with Amon David playing a preacher using heavy blackface Amon Davus was known as the Back Biting Comedian Par Excellence and his sermon is one of Michaeuxs many notable sendups of the clergy