A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Folklorist/Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax called Blank’s stunning and elegiac short on Hopkins’ reminiscences of his youth “one of the three most important films on the South.” Color. 10 minutes. 1969. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.0/10 | |
Released: | January 1, 1969 | |
Runtime: | 10 min | |
Genres: | Documentary Music Short | |
Companies: | Flower Films | |
Cast: | Lightnin Hopkins | |
Crew: | Les Blank | |
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