''The Virgin of the Seminole'' (sometimes listed as ''The Virgin of Seminole'') is a 1922
race film
The race film or race movie was a genre of film produced in the United
States between about 1915 and the early 1950s, consisting of films produced for black audiences, and featuring black casts. Approximately five hundred race films were produce ...
directed, written and produced by
Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (; January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled ...
.
Plot
The film focused on a young black man who joins the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; french: Gendarmerie royale du Canada; french: GRC, label=none), commonly known in English as the Mounties (and colloquially in French as ) is the federal police, federal and national police service of ...
and becomes a hero by rescuing a captive mixed-race woman from a hostile
American Indian tribe. The young man later purchases a ranch that becomes the foundation for great financial wealth.
Cast
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William Fountaine
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Shingzie Howard
Production background and preservation status
The film had its premiere in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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in December 1922 and was distributed by the filmmaker’s Micheaux Film Corporation. No print is known to exist, and it is considered to be a
lost film
A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress.
Conditions
During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o ...
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''The Virgin of Seminole''
at SilentEra.
See also
* List of lost films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films.
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References
External links
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''The Virgin of Seminole'' at SilentEra
1922 films
Films directed by Oscar Micheaux
American black-and-white films
Race films
Lost American films
1922 lost films
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