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Daughters of the Dust : What's Past is Prologue

Mary (Barbara O. Jones) and Viola (Cheryl Lynn Bruce) Peazant travel home to Ibo Landing in anticipation of the family moving North.

What's Past is Prologue

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aerial shot, ambient sound , close-up, costume, cut-in, diegetic sound, displaced diegetic insert, dissolve, ellipsis, establishing shot, eyeline match, fade-in, fade-out, intertitles, lighting, long shot, low angle, medium shot, mise-en-scene, music, diegetic, music, nondiegetic, narration, one-shot, opening sequence, pan, point-of-view shot, prop, reaction shot, reverse angle, setting

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

"What's Past is Prologue" in Daughters of the Dust. Directed by Julie Dash, WMG Film, 1992, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1897

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