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Lilies of the Field : El Boss

Homer (Sidney Poitier) watches Mother Maria (Lilia Skala) and the nuns try and fail to give directions to Juan (Stanley Adams) and the other Latin Americans.

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close-up, dialogue, dissolve, framing, full shot, high angle, long shot, low angle, medium shot, music, empathetic, natural lighting, over the shoulder shot, shot/reverse shot, tracking shot

Diversity in Media Representation

Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, Latinx: Hispanic, White: White Immigrant

"El Boss" in Lilies of the Field. Directed by Ralph Nelson, Rainbow Productions, 1963, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2674

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