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Cotton Comes to Harlem : We Are Going Home

A robbery ensues at Deke O'Malley's (Calvin Lockhart) rally for the Black Beauty, a Back-to-Africa movement ship, which detectives Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) patrol.

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close-up, continuity editing, costume, depth of field, diegetic sound, disjunctive editing, everyday mise-en-scene, eyeline match, framing, handheld camera, high angle, long shot, low angle, match on action, medium close-up, music, diegetic, music, nondiegetic, pan, point-of-view shot, point-of-view sound, reaction shot, shallow focus, shot/reverse shot, social blocking, stinger, tracking shot, two-shot

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"We Are Going Home" in Cotton Comes to Harlem. Directed by Ossie Davis, Formosa Productions, 1970, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1867

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Eduardo Mendoza

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