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Though Davis recognized
the need to make the composer part of the storytelling by including MacDermot
on Cotton Comes to Harlem, it took Melvin Van Peebles
to make the music communicate the shocking nature
of the Black experience. His 1970 Watermelon Man is a satire in which a liberal white man
wakes up one day to find out he's Black. Illustrating the bone-deep horror
of being Black for whites, Godfrey Cambridge shifts the tone
from openly broad and comedic... Jeff! Jeff! Jeff!
There's a Negro in your shower!
the need to make the composer part of the storytelling by including MacDermot
on Cotton Comes to Harlem, it took Melvin Van Peebles
to make the music communicate the shocking nature
of the Black experience. His 1970 Watermelon Man is a satire in which a liberal white man
wakes up one day to find out he's Black. Illustrating the bone-deep horror
of being Black for whites, Godfrey Cambridge shifts the tone
from openly broad and comedic... Jeff! Jeff! Jeff!
There's a Negro in your shower!
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Though Davis recognized
the need to make the composer
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part of the storytelling
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by including MacDermot
on Cotton Comes to Harlem,
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it took Melvin Van Peebles
to make the music communicate
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the shocking nature
of the Black experience.
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His 1970 Watermelon Man is a satire
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in which a liberal white man
wakes up one day to find out he's Black.
00:00:21.479 --> 00:00:25.001
Illustrating the bone-deep horror
of being Black for whites,
00:00:25.108 --> 00:00:28.082
Godfrey Cambridge shifts the tone
from openly broad and comedic...
00:00:30.053 --> 00:00:33.616
Jeff! Jeff! Jeff!
There's a Negro in your shower!
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Movie Summary
Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.
