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Warrington Hudlin and Nelson George on Melvin Van Peebles
The Story of a Three Day Pass • 21m
In this conversation, recorded in 2021, film producer Warrington Hudlin and music historian Nelson George discuss Melvin Van Peebles’s defiant filmmaking style.
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Three Pickup Men for Herrick
Directed by Melvin Van Peebles • 1957 • United States
The second short film Melvin Van Peebles made in San Francisco before decamping for Europe is a striking portrait of a group of day laborers competing to secure a job.
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Les cinq cent balles
Directed by Melvin Van Peebles • 1961 • France
Made in 1961 in Paris, LES CINQ CENT BALLES is about a boy who tries to retrieve a five-hundred-franc note from a gutter.
