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Slide from the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

1971

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A photographic slide of a scene from the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. It features an image a man being interrogated by police officers. He is partially visible through glass door panes. Two police officers can be seen beside him, one of whom holds a gun in his proper right hand. The dull outlines of another man, portraying a detective, and a woman can also be seen in the room, standing against a wall.

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Catalog reference: 2012.82.10.120

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