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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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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