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Killer of Sheep : This Bitter Earth

Stan (Henry G. Sanders) and Stan's Wife (Kaycee Moore) dance to Dinah Washington's "This Bitter Earth."

This Bitter Earth

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acting, close-up, framing, long shot, long take, match on action, medium shot, mise-en-scene, music, nondiegetic, one-shot, performance, sound lag, sound, internal diegetic (or semidiegetic), source lighting, two-shot

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

"This Bitter Earth" in Killer of Sheep. Directed by Charles Burnett, Milestone FIlms, 1978, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1811

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