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Lady Sings the Blues : Billie Witnesses a Lynching

While on a tour of the South, Billie (Diana Ross) witnesses the lynching of a Black man.

Billie Witnesses a Lynching

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beat, action, beat, general, canted frame, close-up, dissolve, exterior, full shot, long shot, low angle, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, music, diegetic, music, empathetic, music, nondiegetic, pan, sound effects, tracking shot

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Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Bisexual Woman:, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female

"Billie Witnesses a Lynching " in Lady Sings the Blues. Directed by Sidney J. Furie, Weston Productions, 1972, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2694

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