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Island in the Sun : Boyeur Scolds Mavis

David Boyeur (Harry Belafonte) gets angry at Mavis Norton (Joan Fontaine) for putting on a blackface mask.

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ambient sound , beat, emotion, beat, general, blackface, dissolve, long shot, medium long shot, music, empathetic, music, nondiegetic, music, semidiegetic, pan

Diversity in Media Representation

Black: Afro-Caribbean, Black: Blackface, Indigenous: Caribbean, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, Migrant, White

"Boyeur Scolds Mavis" in Island in the Sun. Directed by Robert Rossen, Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, 1957, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2612

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Nicholas Thurber

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