The Virgin of the Seminole
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The Virgin of the Seminole (sometimes listed as The Virgin of Seminole) was a 1922
race film directed, written and produced by Oscar Micheaux
. The film focused on a young black man who joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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.
The film had its premiere in Chicago
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
.
1922 in film
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race film directed, written and produced by Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films...
. The film focused on a young black man who joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police , literally ‘Royal Gendarmerie of Canada’; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as ‘The Force’) is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal,...
and becomes a hero by rescuing a captive mixed-race woman from a hostile American Indian
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
tribe. The young man later purchases a ranch that becomes the foundation for great financial wealth.
The film had its premiere in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
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
Lost film
A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...
.