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Bessie : Opening Sequence

Bessie (Queen Latifah) performs in a vaudeville show and reflects on her childhood

Opening Sequence
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ambient sound , asynchronous sound, beat, emotion, beat, event, beat, general, close-up, color contrast , costume, crane shot, dialogue, diegetic sound, dolly shot, fade-in, flashback (anelipsis), full shot, high angle, interior (internal) location, long shot, medium close-up, medium shot, pan, performance, sound advance, sound effects, sound lag, sound, nondiegetic, tilt, title sequence, tracking shot, two-shot

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Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Bisexual Woman:, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female
"Opening Sequence" in Bessie. Directed by Dee Rees, The Zanuck Company, 2015, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2918
This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Alexana Dubois

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