Direction: Skip Gerson

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A Well Spent Life

A Well Spent Life

1972 · Documentary · 44 min. · United States

Music Documentary Half-length Film

Direction Les Blank · Skip Gerson

Cast Alfred Franklin · Hattie Franklin · Elnora Lipscomb · Mance Lipscomb

Synopsis Mance Lipscomb, born in 1895, a Black Texas sharecropper, guitarist, and singer, was recorded by Arhoolie Records in 1960. About ten years later, a film crew visits to listen to...

7.5

22 votes

7.5

22 votes

The Sun's Gonna Shine (S)

The Sun's Gonna Shine (S)

1969 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Short Film Music Documentary

Direction Les Blank · Skip Gerson

Cast Lightnin' Hopkins

Synopsis 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...

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