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 Melvin Van Peebles, as Sweetback, seated in front of two police officers. One officer faces the camera, while the other's back is turned to it. Van Peebles himself is visible in profile.
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Catalog reference: 2012.82.10.99