<I>The Exile</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1931
name: label: Directed by
content: Oscar Micheaux, American, 1884 - 1951
label: Written by
content: Oscar Micheaux, American, 1884 - 1951
label: Produced by
content: Oscar Micheaux, American, 1884 - 1951
label: Subject of
content: Eunice Brooks, American
label: Subject of
content: Stanley Morrell
label: Subject of
content: Celeste Cole, American, 1908 - 1984
label: Subject of
content: Kathleen Noisette, American, 1903 - 1935
label: Subject of
content: Charles R. Moore, American, 1893 - 1947
label: Subject of
content: Nora Newsome, American, 1893 - 1987
label: Subject of
content: George Elwood Randol, American, 1895 - 1973
label: Subject of
content: A.B. DeComathiere, American, 1877 - 1940
label: Subject of
content: Carl Mahon, American, 1906 - 1992
label: Subject of
content: Lou Vernon, Australian, 1888 - 1971
label: Subject of
content: Louise Cook
label: Subject of
content: Ronald Holder, American, born 1911
label: Subject of
content: Donald Heywood, American, 1896 - 1967
label: Owned by
content: Pearl Bowser, American, 1931 - 2023
notes: label: Description
content: A race film with the title The Exile. It consists of three (3) reels of 16mm black-and-white acetate film with optical sound. The film tells the tale of Jean Baptiste (Stanley Morrell), a man living in Chicago, and Edith Duval (Eunice Brooks). Edith, who worked as a servant for a white family, inherits their mansion after they flee their neighborhood because of an influx of African Americans. Jean and Eunice eventually grow at odds with each other because of their different personalities and the two break off their relationship. Jean relocates to South Dakota where he reinvents himself as a rancher and falls in love with Agnes Steward (Nora Newsome), a white woman. Believing that their relationship is doomed because of anti-miscegenation hostility, Jean moves back to Chicago where he reconnects with Edith and the two make plans to get married. One evening, Edith's ex-boyfriend breaks into her room and threatens to kill himself. She challenges him to go through with it, however, he turns the gun and kills her instead. Jean is initially charged with the murder but is eventually acquitted. Meanwhile, Agnes' father confesses that he himself is part black and she travels to Chicago and reunites with Jean.
place: label: Place filmed
content: Greenwich Village, New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: South Dakota, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American West
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Literature
label: Topic
content: Race films
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Pearl Bowser Collection
label: Classification
content: Time-based Media - Moving Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Pearl Bowser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2012.79.1.30.1abc
objectType: label: Type
content: sound films
label: Type
content: black-and-white films (visual works)
label: Type
content: feature films
label: Type
content: 16mm (photographic film size)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public Domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: acetate film
label: Dimensions
content: Physical extent (film) (a): 1140 ft
label: Dimensions
content: Duration (a): 32 min.
label: Dimensions
content: Physical extent (film) (b): 1000 ft
label: Dimensions
content: Duration (b): 28 min.
label: Dimensions
content: Physical extent (film) (c): 700 ft
label: Dimensions
content: Duration (c): 19 min.