Following the discovery two years ago of Within Our Gates, another of African American director Oscar Micheaux's lost films, Veiled Aristocrats, has come to light and is preserved by the film archive of George Eastman House. Many of Micheaux's films were censored or banned at the time of their release, accounting for the fact that so many have been lost. Their themes of hope and justice for African Americans, as well as their images of bigotry...ironically were considered offensive to the white majority. (In Veiled Aristocrats) Lorenzo Tucker, known as the "black Valentino," stars as John Walden, a young man from North Carolina who had been sent as a child to a Northern city to be educated. The story opens with John's return home with the intention of taking his younger sister Rena back north with him. John has been passing as white, and knows that Rena can, too. (But) Rena is already in love with a black man...-Barbara Sharres, The Film Center, Chicago Note: Sound quality is variable in this rare, early-sound print.