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Cotton Comes to Harlem : Prisoners of Cotton

Billie (Mabel Robinson) uses the bake of cotton as a prop for a performance at the Apollo Theater, drawing the attention of Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart), Calhoun (J.D. Cannon), and Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge).

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blackface, close-up, costume, depth of field, diegetic sound, establishing shot, eyeline match, framing, full shot, handheld camera, high-key lighting, long shot, low angle, music, diegetic, pan, prop, reaction shot, reverse angle, set, shallow focus, sound advance, source lighting, source music, tilt, traveling shot, two-shot

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"Prisoners of Cotton" in Cotton Comes to Harlem. Directed by Ossie Davis, Formosa Productions, 1970, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1874

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Eduardo Mendoza

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