“Screen Snapshots” Footage of Oscar Micheaux

A “cinemagazine” newsreel, rediscovered in the UK, captured this brief but remarkable clip of Oscar Micheaux on the set of one of his films, probably THE BRUTE (1920), which has not survived. While Micheaux is clearly performing for the newsreel camera, the one-minute sequence nonetheless provides an invaluable glimpse of the director himself, and the circumstances under which his silent films were made.