| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (51 min.)) : sound, black and white |
| Summary |
The film is the work of self-taught filmmakers James and Eloyce Gist, African-American evangelists who employed cinema as a tool for their traveling ministry. Their surreal visual allegories were screened in churches and meeting halls, accompanied by a sermon and the passing of a collection plate. Rather than having a linear story, the film is instead a catalog of iniquity, a car-by car dramatization of the sins of the Jazz Age (including gambling, dancing, alcohol, and the mistreatment of animals), presided over by the horned devil, culminating in a colossal derailment (a model train tossed in a bonfire) |
| Notes |
Restoration of the 1930 film |
| Credits |
Reconstructed by S. Toriano Berry ; music composed and Dr. Samual Waymon |
| Notes |
Silent movie, with musical accompaniment and with intertitles and subtitles in English |
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Description based on online resource, viewed [May 19, 2023] ; title from title frames |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Drama
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Sin -- Christianity -- Drama
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Devil -- Christianity -- Drama
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Allegories -- Drama
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Sin -- Christianity
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Devil -- Christianity
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Allegories
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African Americans
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| Genre/Form |
Surrealist films
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Silent films
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Race films
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Fiction films
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Drama
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Christian films
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Feature films
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Silent films.
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Christian films.
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Race films.
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Surrealist films.
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Films muets.
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Films de fiction.
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Films chrétiens.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Gist, James, film director, screenwriter.
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Gist, Eloyce, 1892-1974, film director, screenwriter.
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Berry, Torriano, restorationist (expression)
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Waymon, Sam, composer (expression), performer.
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Wood, Bret, film producer.
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Kino Lorber, Inc., publisher.
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