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Bessie : Ending Sequence

After the Great Depression stunted her career, Bessie (Queen Latifah) begins to perform again. She meets producer John Hammond (Bryan Greenberg), who helps reinvigorate her career. Amidst new success, Bessie reflects on her life

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asynchronous sound, beat, action, beat, emotion, close-up, dialogue, diegetic sound, dissolve, dolly shot, establishing shot, extreme long shot, fade-in, flashback, full shot, hard lighting, insert, long shot, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, music, diegetic, music, empathetic, music, nondiegetic, natural lighting, pan, performance, sequence, shallow focus, shot/reverse shot, soft lighting, sound advance, sound bridge, sound effects, tilt, tracking shot, two-shot, zoom-in

Diversity in Media Representation

Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Bisexual Woman:, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, White: White American

"Ending Sequence" in Bessie. Directed by Dee Rees, The Zanuck Company, 2015, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2921

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Alexana Dubois

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