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Veiled aristocrats a Micheaux production ; [director, producer, writer Oscar Micheaux].
- Title
- Veiled aristocrats [videorecording] / a Micheaux production ; [director, producer, writer Oscar Micheaux].
- Publication
- Phoenix, AZ : Grapevine video, [2007]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moving image | Request in advance | PN1997 .V445 2007 DVD | Off-site |
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- Description
- 1 videodisc (44 min.) : sd., b&w; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Twenty years after leaving home, John Walden returns, having achieved his ambition to become a lawyer. He and his mother, Molly, discuss the marital situation of his sister, Rena, and the racial complications it poses. Molly asks John to break up Rena's romance with Frank because she disapproves of him and wants her daughter to marry a man of more refinement. Eventually, after trying to live the life her family desires for her, Rena renounces trying to pass for white, and is reunited with Frank.
- Alternative Title
- Oscar Micheaux's Veiled aristocrats
- Mr. Adam's bomb.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Feature films – United States.
- DVD-Video discs.
- Note
- Based on the novel The house behind the cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt.
- Originally released as motion picture in 1932.
- Includes short subject: Mr. Adam's bomb (1949, 21 min.) starring Eddie Green.
- Performer (note)
- Laura Bowman, Lorenzo Tucker, Barrington Guy, Lawrence Chenault, Walter Fleming, Lucile Lewis, Carl Mahon, Bernadine Mason.
- System Details (note)
- DVD-R.
- Language (note)
- English audio track.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- LCCN
- 842614102837
- OCLC
- 190752788
- SCSB-10794790
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library