Slide from the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

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A photographic slide from the set of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. It features an image of a nude woman, as Big Sadie, lying on the floor. Melvin Van Peebles, who is also nude, kneels beside her. A second, shirtless, unidentified man is also visible in the image, leaning over the naked woman as he holds a device in his proper right hand.

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