Word: micheaux
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Negro film capital of the U. S. this week is not in Manhattan's swart Harlem, but The Bronx. There, in an old Biograph studio, Micheaux Picture Corp. has got around to producing the latest of some 40 Negro pictures it has made in 20 years. They are scripted, directed, edited and peddled by thickset, mild-mannered, chocolate-colored Producer Oscar Micheaux. Micheaux pictures take an average ten days to shoot, cost from $10,000 to $20,000. Casts are always allstar. "If I made one person the star," says foxy Producer Micheaux, "there would be no holding that...
Last week somewhat somnolent business was jarred by the beat of a tom-tom. Publicity-wise, plane-cracking, bemonocled Negro Aviator Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian announced that he had joined Micheaux Picture Corp. as associate producer. Occasion was the world premiere of The Notorious Elinor Lee, first of a series of pictures which Julian says he will make with Micheaux Pictures...
...Third Micheaux-Julian production will be an aviation picture in which Julian may act as aviator. "It will tell the story of my career, my crack-up when I tried to fly to Europe, my parachute jumping over the city, and my triumph in getting the Army to have Negro aviators...
...Hitherto Micheaux films have featured all-Negro casts. Producer Julian has other ideas: "Now, in our new picture, there are 18 whites. . . . When we need whites in the story, we are going to have whites...