Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Slide from the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
1971
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
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
