Within Our Gates

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,4/10

3,8 k

MA NOTE

On this IMDbrief, we celebrate four unsung Black heroes of film history and four films to watch to get to know them better.

Lireclip4 min 30 s

Regarder Unsung Black Heroes of Film History

1 vidéo

14 photos

Dark Romance Feel-Good Romance Political Drama Drama Romance

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueAbandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,4/10

3,8 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 2 victoires et 1 nomination au total

Vidéos1

Clip 4:30

Unsung Black Heroes of Film History

Photos14

+ 8

Plus de résultats de ce genre

7,3

Orphans of the Storm

7,3

Way Down East

6,6

La souriante Madame Beudet

7,0

Foolish Wives

7,3

Les vampires

7,2

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

6,2

Body and Soul

7,7

Our Hospitality

7,9

The Great White Silence

8,0

La Charette Fantôme

7,6

Nanouk

6,5

Prapanch Pash

Histoire

Modifier

Le saviez-vous

Modifier

Anecdotes
The film has been repeatedly censored over the years. In its first outing, the rape and lynching scenes were heavily edited as they were deemed too provocative after the 1919 Chicago race riots.

Citations
Mrs. Elena Warwick: Since I have decided to give her my assistance, I would be grateful if, as a Southerner yourself, Geraldine, you could point me the best way to do so.
Mrs. Geraldine Stratton: Lumber-jacks and field hands. Let me tell you - it is an error to try and educate them. Besides, they don't want an education. Can't you see that thinking would only give them a headache? Their ambition is to belong to a dozen lodges, consume religion without restraint, and, when they die, go straight up to heaven. Wasting $5,000 on a school is plain silly when you could give $100 to old Ned, the best colored preacher in the world... who will do more to keep Negroes in their place than all your schools put together.

Autres versions
In 1993, the Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center restored this film as close to the original as possible, from the only known surviving copy in Spain. The Spanish intertitles were retranslated into English using typical Micheaux language. Only one short sequence was missing and that was summarized with an intertitle frame. The running time is 79 minutes.

Connexions
Featured in American Experience: Midnight Ramble (1994)

Commentaires des utilisateurs30

Commentaire

Commentaire en vedette

The earliest surviving film from a black director

"Within Our Gates" is of enormous historical interest as a remnant of a brief period in the early twenties/late teens when there were (due to segregation laws) films made and distributed specifically by and for African-Americans. In this way, it has most deservedly been chosen for placement in the National Film Registry.

By today's standards the film is as silly, half-baked, and paper-thin as something by a high school playwright. The performances are pretty atrocious, but for the most part they are at home with the style of acting that pervaded films of the silent era.

It dealt with provocative issues of the time, such as overt racism, lynching, and the sorry state of education for the black community. Eighty years later we may have done a bit of shoring up, but no one's foolish enough to say that we're doing any better today. One positive thing that can be said is that a film dealing with these subjects today is encouraged, whereas in 1920 "Within Our Gates" was crushed by disapproving educators, legislators, and spineless distributors.