Virtually every shot faces its subject matter head on.
Walls appear directly perpendicular to the center line of the shot, parallel to the frame.
Most objects in the shot, whether furniture or fixtures, are also parallel to the plane of the frame. The characters are also often looking straight ahead. Micheaux likes rectangular regions in his compositions, and uses them to frame his characters. This style of filmmaking has its own special beauty. Shot after shot seems classically composed.