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Lady Sings the Blues : Opening Scene

After being arrested on a drug charge, Jazz singer Billie Holiday (Diana Ross) is thrown in jail.

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beat, emotion, beat, general, close-up, dissolve, full shot, high angle, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, music, semidiegetic, sound bridge, sound effects, tilt, zoom-in

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"Opening Scene" in Lady Sings the Blues. Directed by Sidney J. Furie, Weston Productions, 1972, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2691

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