This style of filmmaking has its own special beauty. Shot after shot seems classically composed. Micheaux edits gracefully, cutting from a long to a medium shot, or back, whenever its seems appropriate. Since each shot seems so carefully imagined and composed, the effect is like following thought itself. The camera goes wherever the director thinks events and ideas are most interesting.
Outdoor shots are especially lyrical, with buggies traveling through fields.
A perspective shot with a sidewalk stretching out directly into the distance is beautiful, and recalls Buster Keaton. Micheaux' style as a whole recalls that of the most influential silent director, D.W. Griffith. His characters express emotions with the fervency and clean acting style of Griffith's performers. A deathbed scene has all of Griffith's devotion to family feeling. When the director cuts back from a close or medium shot to a long shot, the effect is as if the image opened up like a flower.