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Cotton Comes to Harlem : White Shit About to Hit Black Fan

Two rival groups, one led by Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart) and the other by his ex-partner Calhoun (J.D. Cannon), search the pier for the bale of cotton, as Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) stake them out.

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blocking, close-up, costume, diegetic sound, dolly out, establishing shot, eyeline match, high angle, high-key lighting, lighting, long take, low angle, match on action, medium shot, music, nondiegetic, pan, prop, rack focus, reaction shot, set, shot/reverse shot, sound effects, sound lag, source lighting, tilt, tracking shot, two-shot

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"White Shit About to Hit Black Fan" in Cotton Comes to Harlem. Directed by Ossie Davis, Formosa Productions, 1970, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1871

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Eduardo Mendoza

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