Pearl Bowser Looks At Early Black Cinema: The Legacy of Oscar Micheaux

Pearl Bowser Looks At Early Black Cinema: The Legacy of Oscar Micheaux

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 14, 1984

Runtime

0h 28m

Original Title

Pearl Bowser Looks At Early Black Cinema: The Legacy of Oscar Micheaux

Description

Pearl Bowser (born 1931) is an author, television director, film director, producer, and film archivist. At the time of the program, she was the director of Chamba Educational Film Services. She is the author of a book on the first ten years of the career of Oscar Micheaux and is credited for having helped rediscover some of Oscar Micheaux's rare surviving films. She is the founder of African Diaspora Images, a collection of visual and oral histories that documents the history of African-American filmmaking.