Slide from the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

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A photographic slide of a scene from the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. It features an image of two men, portraying detectives, interrogating a naked woman. One of the detectives wears suspenders and stands in a doorway. The other detective holds the woman's neck with his proper left hand as he points a gun at her with his other hand.

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