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, portraying Big Sadie, lying on the ground. Melvin Van Peebles, portraying Sweetback, can be seen kneeling beside her, pressing his proper right hand on her right arm and his proper left hand on her right knee.

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